Beer Bridge Bonn Beuel, 237th Engineers
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Today 70 years ago the 237th Engineer Combat Battalion construted the bridge across the Rhine: 398.7 m in 10 hours. With this Performance they won a bet against Gen. Collins and a lot of beer.

 

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/rueckblick/Die-Beer-Bridge-ist-heute-noch-beruehmt-article1593871.html

 

Christoph

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Beer Bridge Bonn Beuel, 237th Engineers - by Christoph - 03-21-2015, 12:23 PM

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