File:US Army crossing the Rhine on heavy ponton bridge at Worms, March, 1945.png

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English: US Army crossing the Rhine River on pontoon supported treadway bridge at Worms, March, 1945
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Source US Army
Author Unknown photographer

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Bridge was built by the 85th Engineer Heavy Ponton Battalion on March 26, 1945, 200-feet downstream from the demolished Ernst Ludwig highway bridge. It was named the Alexander Patch Bridge after the Seventh Army commander, General Alexander Patch. A stone tower of the former bridge is visible on the opposite bank.[1]

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  1. Beck, Alfred M., et al The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany, Center of Military History (U S Army), 1985 [1] archive copy at the Wayback Machine

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U.S. Army troops cross the Rhine on a heavy pontoon bridge, March 1945

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