Bridge at Remagen?

Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith



Thanks. I made many trips to Germany on business and the towers always stood.
I just wondered if they rebuilt the bridge in recent years. I guess they never
will.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

ArtKramr wrote:

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith



Thanks. I made many trips to Germany on business and the towers always stood.
I just wondered if they rebuilt the bridge in recent years. I guess they never
will.

Museum website he

http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm

Guy

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: Guy Alcala
Date: 2/7/04 11:19 PM Pacific Standard Time
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ArtKramr wrote:

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith



Thanks. I made many trips to Germany on business and the towers always
stood.
I just wondered if they rebuilt the bridge in recent years. I guess they
never
will.

Museum website he

http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm

Guy



Thanks Guy. Interesting. I appreciate it.
Memories.Memories. (sigh)



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

ArtKramr wrote:

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Museum website he

http://www.bruecke-remagen.de/index_en.htm

Guy


Thanks Guy. Interesting. I appreciate it.
Memories.Memories. (sigh)

My Dad's memories of the bridge include being just missed by strafing while
waiting to cross. It was also the first time he saw a jet.

Guy

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith




It wouild be interesting to speculate as to why it was never rebuilt. No longer
needed? National humiliation? If the latter I would think all traces would have
been removed, towers and all. Any theories?


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

ArtKramr wrote:
Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith





It wouild be interesting to speculate as to why it was never rebuilt. No longer
needed? National humiliation? If the latter I would think all traces would have
been removed, towers and all. Any theories?

According to the site, it was only built as a military link. The
post-war German govt had no need of such.

The Germans are to be commended for their determination to remember
their 20th century militarism, in order to avoid repeating mistakes. I
suppose leaving another memorial here is part of that.

Weren't you tempted to buy a stone?

John

Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: John Mullen
Date: 2/8/04 5:23 AM Pacific Standard Time
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ArtKramr wrote:
Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith





It wouild be interesting to speculate as to why it was never rebuilt. No
longer
needed? National humiliation? If the latter I would think all traces would
have
been removed, towers and all. Any theories?

According to the site, it was only built as a military link. The
post-war German govt had no need of such.

The Germans are to be commended for their determination to remember
their 20th century militarism, in order to avoid repeating mistakes. I
suppose leaving another memorial here is part of that.

Weren't you tempted to buy a stone?

John


No. I have all the mimentos of WW II I will ever need,



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

John Mullen wrote in message ...
ArtKramr wrote:
Subject: Bridge at Remagen?
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 2/6/04 6:42 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Was the bridge at Remagen ever rebuilt?


No , I drove past the spot some years ago and the towers are still there
but the span was never rebuilt. There was US flag on the West
Bank tower IRC, a plaque and a small museum.

Keith





It wouild be interesting to speculate as to why it was never rebuilt. No longer
needed? National humiliation? If the latter I would think all traces would have
been removed, towers and all. Any theories?

According to the site, it was only built as a military link. The
post-war German govt had no need of such.

The Germans are to be commended for their determination to remember
their 20th century militarism, in order to avoid repeating mistakes. I
suppose leaving another memorial here is part of that.

The Germans deserve sympathy and the truth. They were no more at
fault than anyone else for the fratracidal idiocy that was WW1. The
German states both before and after unification in 1877 were much less
militaristic than the war mongering British or the vain glorious
French as measured by military involvements.

My god the British even were arsehole enough to help the Turks against
the Russians in the Crimea. The Russians were trying to help their
Christian brothers against yet another Ottoman invasion. What a bunch
of pricks were they! The same *******s that fabricated attrocities
to lure the English people into a war when infact they had secret
treaties requiring a war!

Hitler was a symptom along the way to war rather than a cause: if the
war had not been fought then that would be good, if the Germans had of
won the world would probably be a better place; it could scarcely be
worse than the degeneration we see in Britain and the UK now.

The germans are a dying race with the birth rate at less than 1.38
children per couple (source fertility data from CIA world fact book)
and at that rate are disappering at the rate of 35% per 20 year
generation: they'll be gone in less than 60 years and a minority in
their own country in less: replaced by immigrants and the fe remanents
will most certainly be a few mullatos.

The rest of Europe, the UK and USA is following them.

Part of the reason is the relentless and malevolent ethnophobic
propaganda against Germans (and Eruopeans) that has sought to destroy
an entire race of people by destroying and damaging their culture.

Every time I seel one of Spielbergs stupid technically inaccurate
movies or series films I can see the hatred of this beaked turd
effusing. They deserve commendation credit for putting up with this
****wit.






Weren't you tempted to buy a stone?

John