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Day 26 July 5, 2026 THE LAST DAY OF BIKING- Remagen Loop <\/strong>58 miles, 3700\u2019 of elevation gain<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s ride was often near the tranquil Rhine River. We crossed it on a ferry and road along some of EuroVelo 15\u2019s storied Rhine Cycle Route.<\/p>\n

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Our destination was Remagen and the Ludendorff Bridge\u2014a site of dramatic Allied advance in March 1945. It was the only remaining bridge of 19 that crossed the Rhine river in Germany. Here a local guide told us the story of this amazing crossing.\u00a0The American\u2019s crossing of the Ludendorff Bridge is a dramatic story, one that resulted in hastening the defeat of Germany, in Germany, and the shortening of the war.<\/p>\n

Here is how today\u2019s briefing describes the Race to Remagen. The following detailed information makes today\u2019s blog a bit longer than normal, but it is a fascinating story:<\/p>\n

\u201cWinding its way from Switzerland to the North Sea, the Rhine River has historically stood as a natural barrier defending the German heartland that lies beyond it. Since the days of the Roman Empire, the river’s cold, wide and swift waters have proven to be a formidable obstacle to any aggressor intending to cross it. These facts were well known to the Allied commanders as their forces continued their assault toward the German interior in March 1945. The crossing of the Rhine would be a difficult and costly task.<\/p>\n

As the Allied armies approached, Hitler ordered the destruction of all the bridges that spanned the Rhine. By March 7, they had all been, except one – the Ludendorff railroad bridge at the little resort town of Remagen a few miles to the southeast of Cologne. On that day Lady Luck smiled on the Allies. At about 1 PM an American reconnaissance patrol reached the wooded hills overlooking the river at Remagen, and to their surprise, discovered the bridge still intact. Then the race began.<\/p>\n

The Americans quickly launched a full-scale assault on the bridge while the defending Germans scrambled to detonate the explosive charges that had been set to destroy it. The fighting was fierce as both sides realized what was at stake. The American soldiers scrambled under withering gun fire from girder to girder returning fire and ripping the explosives from the bridge’s super structure. The German’s were successful in detonating some explosives – but not enough to destroy the bridge. By 4 PM – approximately four minutes after the assault began – the Americans had reached the other side of the river and secured the bridge. When informed, 1st Army commander Omar Bradley responded:\u00a0“Hot dog . . .this will bust ’em wide open. Shove everything you can across!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Everett Holles was a NBC Radio war correspondent accompanying the troops that made the assault over the Rhine. He describes what happened as the American force approached the bridge:<\/p>\n

On beyond the four towers of the Apollinariskirche that glistened in a light drizzle of rain they saw Remagen\u2019s 400-yard-long, three-span bridge across the Rhine. The bridge ran to the village of Erpel on the east bank and across it lay two railroad tracks. Other American forces had come up against the same sort of thing before, but always, as they came to the Rhine crossings, the bridges went up in great explosions before their eyes, set off by German demolition engineers.<\/p>\n

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Traffic was still moving across the Ludendorf Bridge. On the other side locomotives puffed, awaiting orders to pull out. Lt. Col. Leonard Engemann of Minneapolis, in command of a reconnaissance party, was determined to save this bridge if it was at all possible. So, at 3:50 o\u2019clock, a platoon led by Lieut. Emmett Burrows of New York City, sped down the slope to the bridge entrance. There was a flurry of shooting as the Germans, taken completely by surprise, scurried about trying to organize a defense. A German gun was knocked out, some German soldiers killed. Then the Yanks, crouching low against machine gun fire coming from the bridge towers, ran out onto the bridge. Just as they stepped on the span, an explosion occurred three-quarters of the way down the bridge. The Germans were setting off demolition charges, and the men thought surely their chance was gone. But no, only slight damage was done. They raced on.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Alexander A. Drabik, a tall, lanky former butcher from Holland, Ohio, was the first American across the Rhine, the first invader to reach its east bank since the time of Napoleon. But he wanted all the honors passed on to a young lieutenant of the engineers, John W. Mitchell of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

“While we were running across the bridge \u2013 and, man, it may have been only 250 yards but it seemed like 250 miles to us \u2013 I spotted this lieutenant, standing out there completely exposed to the machine gun fire that was pretty heavy by this time.\u00a0He was cutting wires and kicking the German demolition charges off the bridge with his feet! Boy that took plenty of guts. He’s the one who saved the bridge and made the whole thing possible \u2013 the kinda guy I’d like to know.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Soon the bridge was swarming with Americans, while Mitchell, joined now by other engineers, cut and jerked out wires leading to dynamite charges. Gingerly they detached detonators and lifted boxes of explosives from the piers.<\/p>\n

Later, from prisoners, the Americans learned that the Germans planned to blow up the span at precisely four o\u2019clock. But the German officer assigned the demolition job was drunk when the American tanks reached Remagen. This officer, a lieutenant, had gone into the town of Eprel as the Yanks approached and spread the word boastfully that \u2018the bridge goes up at four o\u2019clock this afternoon’.<\/p>\n

German soldiers and civilians, gathering from miles around, were sitting in \u2018grandstand\u2019 seats at every vantage point on the east bank, waiting for the spectacular event to come off, when Burrows\u2019 patrol ran onto the bridge \u2013 ten minutes before the hour fixed for its destruction. The German lieutenant signaled the plunger down. Two small explosions occurred, but the bridge only shuddered and remained standing. Several of the fuses had been faulty.<\/p>\n

. . .By nightfall scores of tanks, trucks by the hundreds were moving up and across the Rhine. All roads leading to Remagen were packed with American troops and trucks and armor and guns. Soldiers who had been ready to drop from fatigue stepped on the accelerator, broad grins splitting their begrimed faces. The Ludendorf bridge had become a one-way street, east-bound.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bridge collapsed a couple of weeks after the attempt to blow it up and the hundreds of allied tanks and trucks that crossed it into Germany. All that remains of it today is the girders that once supported it.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re interested in watching a movie about this bridge and battle, check out The Bridge at Remagen, a 1969 Movie (https:\/\/youtu.be\/qb-dUGyv4W0?si=OdxW8w2OcvFHfFUP<\/a>). It is a somewhat fictionalized version of actual events during the last months of World War II when the 9th Armored Division approached Remagen and captured the intact Ludendorff Bridge. Instead of the real week-long battle and several artillery duels fought between the Americans and German defenders, the film focuses on the heroism and human cost in gaining a bridgehead across the Rhine before the Allies’ final advance into Germany…. worth a watch!<\/p>\n

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After marveling at this highly significant and interesting piece of history, we returned through little villages and bike paths to our historic hotel. Thus, a great trip ended. From the Normandy battlefield sites, through WWI and WWII battle sites in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany, we saw so many interesting places. That is an understatement. This blog only reveals portions of the many beautiful and historical places that we saw.<\/p>\n

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A footnote: in the summer of 2013, 13 years ago, I bicycled from Seattle to Washington, D.C. It took 7 weeks to go about 3500 miles. This trip was only 26 days but just as epic in a very different way. I am surely glad that I completed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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