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Wednesday, March 8, 1995
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Veterans revisit historic WWII bridge
The Associated Press
REMAGEN, Germany — German veterans and the Americans who defeated them joined under cold, bright skies yesterday to celebrate the bold U.S. thrust over the Rhine 50 years ago — which hastened the end of World War II.
Taking Remagen: Allies' Rhine victory
On March 7, 1945, disbaying direct orders, the U.S. North Armored Division crossed and captured the Ludendorf Railway Bridge at Remagen, marking the first Allied crossing of the Rhine and upsetting German defenses along the entire river.
The veterans, many in their 80s, shivered through speeches at a ceremony in the shadow of the stone towers of the Ludendorff Bridge. The U.S. capture of the bridge signaled the end of a war and the start of a friendship with Germany.
"No one knows exactly by how much the war was shortened, but if it was only by five minutes it's still worth celebrating," he said.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. George Ruhlen was with the 9th Armored Division, which took the bridge on March 7, 1945.
"In the name of two postwar generations, I want to thank the Americans for acting as resolutely as they did on March 7, 1945," said Gerd Scheller. 51. "They gave us the chance to free ourselves from dictatorship and rebuild."
The German speakers at yesterday's ceremony, representatives of a country that has lost the ability to find glory in battle, focused on the half-century of peace, prosperity and democracy that the loss of the bridge hastened.
Scheller's father, Hans Scheller, had taken command of the bridge hours before it fell. He became a victim of Hitler's enraged determination to have the heads of those responsible for the debacle. Scheller was executed as a traitor on March 12.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
On the drizzly day half a century
ago, the 9th Armored Division had orders to march down the west side of the river and join with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army Group. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was to make the first crossing of the Rhine farther north two weeks later.
But that plan assumed the Germans would have destroyed all of the 47 Rhine bridges.
Troops who reached a hill above the Rhine saw the Ludendorff Bridge lying beneath them, an invitation to cross the river with dry
feet that Lt. Col. Leonard Engeman, commander of the lead column, accepted without waiting for orders from upstairs.
Sgt. Michael Chinchar, a Battle of the Bulge veteran who had several close scraps with death behind him, got the nod to lead the first platoon across the shaky bridge after a German dynamite charge failed to destroy it.
"I was lucky, and somebody must have been praying for thee," Chinchar, 77, of Saddle River, N.J., said as he gazed at the basalt cliffs
across the river. "It's like a dream, but one you can't forget."
Chinchar reached a tower on the opposite banks, stuck a gun into the ribs of a German soldier, seized the tower and ordered his men to find cover as the Germans showed the bridge with anti-aircraft fire from the cliffs above.
Werner Hildebrandt, 67, a German veteran who hobbled to the ceremony on crutches he has used since being injured in the war, recalled the Nazi-loving major who ordered him to stay on the bridge as the Americans approached.
"The bastard should thank his lucky stars he wasn't shot by his own men," said Hildebrandt. "Finally we ran."
By then, he said, everyone was out to save his own skin.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower responded to the unexpected capture of the bridge by ordering all available troops across it. GIs and Belgian troops moving across the bridge came under bombing and steady flak and artillery fire.
Under the steady assault and the strain of hundreds of U.S. trucks, tanks, artillery and soldiers, the bridge collapsed March 17, taking 28 men to their deaths.
By then, two pontoon bridges were in operation and a bridgehead of 25,000 men on the east side of the Rhine had punctured the German defenses, aiding a pincer movement that captured 300,000 German troops in the Ruhr Valley.
The battle made instant heroes of Chinchar and his men. Cecil Roberts, operations officer for the lead assault column at Remagen, became a technical adviser on Hollywood's version of the battle, "The Bridge at Remagen."
New York senator D'Amato endorses Dole
The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole was endorsed for president yesterday by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato from New York in a move that strengthened Dole's ties to a state rich in Republican convention delegates and a key source of campaign money.
"Bob Dole has earned the honor to lead our nation," D'Amato said at the Kansas senator's presidential campaign headquarters.
Dole, in turn, named D'Amato to head his national campaign steering committee, which will provide guidance on policy and political strat-
"If Al D'Amato is known for anything, he's known to be a fighter," Dole said. "We'll be looking to him for advice."
New York, with 102 delegates to the GOP convention in 1996, ranks third behind California and Texas. It also moved up its primary from April to March — precisely a year from yesterday — making it the first major industrial state to hold a primary next year.
Yesterday's announcement was timed in part as a show of strength to California Gov. Pete Wilson, who, is nearing a decision on whether to enter the race. New York is considered an important state in Wilson's possible strategy for winning the nomination.
"I will say that was part of it," said Bill Lacy, Dole's deputy campaign chairman. "It will be a big plus."
The endorsement coincided with a New York Post poll showing President Clinton ahead of Dole 45 percent to 38 percent in New York if the election were held now.
Dole, however, was far ahead of the GOP pack with Republican voters, with 47 percent.
D'Amato's political organization is credited with helping topper former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, a democrat, by boosting the candidacy of the new GOP governor, George Pataki. D'Amato said Pataki had great regard for Dole but was unsure when an endorsement from the governor might come.
But D'Amato noted Dole had made campaign appearances with Pataki when "he was barely a blip on the political radar screen."
("Dole") came in and campaigned for him when he was trailing, when he wasn't doing so good. "D'Amato said. 'He been there for us."
"The bottom line is, we've got a lot of work to do. But this is an important step," Lacy said. "(D'Amato's) organization has been very, very useful."
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