Longest Fixed Bailey Bridge
Details:
On the north side of the road on the east side of the river. Monument
A concrete base holds a bronze plaque. The plaque has the
insignias of the US Army Engineer Corps, the First Infantry Division, the 9th
Armored Division, the III Corps, and the First Army. English text.
Monument Text:
To commemorate the
284th Engineer Combat Battalion
26 February 1945
C company Bailey
bridge site
built under indirect
fire, this Bailey bridge
was the longest fixed
Bailey bridge of WWII
in the ETO at 254’ it
was used to move the
9th Armored
Division
across the Roer river
to capture the
Ludendorff bridge at Remagen