Watch on the Rhine

Rhine River Action
The 3rd Infantry Division’s
Tour of Europe in World War II

Countless information, maps, and descriptions are from “The History of the Third Infantry Division in World War II” © 1947 by The Infantry Journal Inc.
This book tells of the 3rd Infantry Division’s campaigns in French Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, Southern Italy, at Anzio, and Southern France; it traces the course of the Division over the Vosges Mountains, through the Colmar Pocket and across Germany to Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, and Salzburg in Austria.
The book also describes the amphibious assaults against Casablanca in French Morocco, Licata in Sicily, Anzio in Italy, and Cavaliere and St. Tropez in Southern France.

Treadway being built across the Rhine at Worms, Germany

GI’s leading nurse and German POW’s across the Rhine at Worms, Germany

Jeeps with trailers using Pontoon Bridge, crosses the Rhine River-Worms, Germany.

Artillery crew crossing Rhine at Worth Germany

Destroyed Bridge on the Rhine River Canal

Watch on the Rhine

American Mortar outfit setting up across from the city of Kehl, Germany

Well constructed trenches, connecting pill boxes and gun emplacements,
near Rhine River at Neuf Brisach, France Feb.17, 1945

Engineers building a bridge. May 1944

Path showing where two tanks crashed thru Siegfried Line.
Dragon’s teeth are approximately 2.5 feet high with mines between the teeth.
February, 1944

30th Infantry Regiment Raiders hunting snipers in France.

Getting out of the way of incoming artillery Bischweir, France.

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