The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

The capture of the bridge at Remagen, a surprisingly intact path into Germany, helped U.S. troops hasten the end of World War ...

For three months — by counterattacks, by desperate delaying actions and by man-made floods — the Germans had prevented General Eisenhower’s armies from crossing the Roer River. Every once in ...

The Rhine Falls, near Schaffhausen in northern ... you should be saving Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain The Longest Living Dog Breeds ...

U.S. Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF) service members joined German military leaders, veterans, and local officials on ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely ... than 16,000 men were dropped ...

Most river-cruise lines in Europe focus on Rhine itineraries between Amsterdam and Basel and longer routes that extend via the dainty Main River onto the Danube, generally finishing in Budapest.

In 1936, Americans looked on as Adolf Hitler remilitarized western German lands near the Rhine River and the eastern ... the world worried about whether Europe was headed once again toward war.

The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles ... derive from human interventions conditioned by the cultural and political evolution of Western Europe. The geomorphology of the Middle ...