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Word: urdingen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: The Big River | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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