Die Brücke von Remagen -The Remagen Bridge - LT (US) K.H.Timmermann, "Hero Of The Rhine" 1945

22-year-old German-American Lieutenant Karl Heinrich Timmermann was leader of a company of the 9th US Armored divison, which advanced from the west to the Rhine at Remagen. on March 7, 1945.
From a ridge in the west of Remagen he had observed at about 1.30 pm that an attempt of the German bridge crew to blow up the bridge had failed.
At 3.30 pm, Timmermann managed to cross the bridge with soldiers of his unit and to occupy the railway tunnel on the east side.

This happening is often discussed on the internet. You will find a link in German and English at the bottom of this page.

Timmermann and another soldier of his unit were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. Since his death at the age of 29 as a result of cancer, a memorial stone in a park in West Point wearing his name commemorates the "HERO OF THE RHINE".

The grandfather Timmerman, Arnold, had emigrated in 1871 from Altenmarhorst near Vechta to the United States. His name was Timmermann too, not Zimmermann, as one might assume.

The fact that American soldiers crossed the Rhine on the Ludendorff Bridge decades before LT Timmermann and the men of his company, you will find out by the text to the next image of our gallery.

Licence:
US Army, Timmermann-Karl-Lt-US Army-March1945, As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain, Details see Wikimedia Commons

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