Low water levels after a drought and heatwave are stopping cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine river in ...

American forces of the 9th Armored Division made a stunning breakthrough—they captured the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen ...

A serious accident on a shuttered old bridge over the Rhine River near Cologne on Thursday left one construction worker dead and six more injured, two of them critically, according to the local ...

Eight decades ago, on March 7, American soldiers saw the most unexpected sight. A bridge, just more than 1,000-feet-long, was intact over the Rhine River. It shouldn’t have been. The Nazis had ...

The Three Countries Bridge is the world's longest single-span bridge and crosses the Rhine between the commune of Huningue in France and Weil am Rhein in Germany.

West Germany, April 1954: Soldiers from the 109th Engineer Battalion raise guy-wires for a 60-ton bridge being built across the Rhine River during an exercise.

To the French, the liberation of Strasbourg was next in importance to the freeing of Paris. Last week Paris celebrated; the sniper-infested ancient capital of Alsace could not. The Consultative ...

At Euskirchen, 17 miles west of the Rhine, Major General John W. Leonard heard of Cologne's capture. Other elements of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army had that situation ...

While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat Annie” and sailed down the Rhine, in honor of the ...

A damaged vehicle stands on an access road to the Rhine bridge, in Mannheim, Germany, on Monday, following an incident when a car rammed into a crowd, German police said.

It also included three bridges across the Rhine, including the heavily used Hohenzollern railway bridge, which leads into Cologne's central station. Shipping on the Rhine also was suspended.