Watch on the Rhine
The 3rd Infantry Division's
Tour of Europe in World War II


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 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 the story and umbrellas the entire journey 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.

 


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Treadway being built across the Rhine at Worms, Germany

 


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Completed bridge at Worms, with troops crossing.

 


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

 


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 Artillery crew crossing Rhine at Worth Germany


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 Destroyed Bridge on the Rhine River Canal

 


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Watch on the Rhine

                                 

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

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

  


 


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  30th Infantry Regiment Raiders hunting snipers in France.


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


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