Off the roadway, on a river overlook.

A large granite monument about 15 feet high with two inscribed sides topped by the US and Soviet flags etched in the stone. Information signs provide the details of this momentous event.

The Soviet built memorial remembers the link-up of US- Soviet Forces near the end of World War II on April 25, 1945 at the Elbe River bridge.

From the 69^th Infantry Division Association Website:

Robertson Patrol 1600 (4:00 PM). The scene at the damaged bridge over the Elbe in Torgau about 1600, April 25, 1945. Americans 2nd Lieutenant William D. Robertson and Pfc Frank Huff, Hq 1st Bn 273rd Inf Rgt  (69^th Infantrty Division, 1^st Army) climbing the steel skeleton of the blasted bridge over the Elbe River in Torgau to meet Soviet Lieutenant Alexander Silvashko and Sergeant Nikolai Andrejew, 58th Guards Division (First Ukrainian Front).

Two sides of the monument are inscribed in Russian with smaller dark marble translations in German and English.  The English reads:

Side 1:

HERE ON THE ELBE

ON APRIL 25, 1945

THE FORCES OF THE 

FIRST UKRAINIAN FRONT

OF THE RED ARMY

LINK-UP

WITH AMERICAN FORCES

Side 2:

GLORY 

TO THE VICTORIOUS 

RED ARMY

AND

OUR HEROIC ALLIES

HAVING TRIUMPHED OVER

FASCIST GERMANY