WWII - 1945: Rhine Crossing Preparations; Ludendorff Bridge Repairs & Collapse; Jet Tested; M69 Bombs

WWII - 1945: Rhine Crossing Preparations; Ludendorff Bridge Repairs & Collapse; Jet Tested; M69 Bombs 24Mar45. Soldiers of 30th Division board LCVPs to cross Rhine; crossing & out of landing craft. Jeep & ammunition trailer off, soldiers up dike. Tanks off. 10:51:43 Gliders land near Brunnen, Germany. Crash. Unloading & leaving across field, along road. 10:52:06 4th Armored Division on rainy road passing freed laborers; Nazi troops surrendering in group on road, searched. Tanks & others in convoy / column moving up. 10:52:32 Road clogged w/ abandoned German equipment, horses dead & alive along road. Nazis waiting to be moved, thru town streets. 10:53:06 Smoke from shelling of Ohringen, Germany south of Remagen. 10:53:20 16Mar45 Allied troops across treadway bridge, others moved on LCVPs crossing Rhine River. DUKWs w/ supplies crossing w/ troops & returning w/ empty jerry cans. LS of Ludendorff Bridge; MCUs of troops firing at attacking planes & soldiers running across bridge. MP directing traffic. Parked convoy w/ pontoons; assembling bridge, bomb explosions next to bridge, men running back to shore. Trucks onto floating bridge, tanks crossing & off. Men working on strengthening Ludendorff bridge; collapsed bridge & rescue crews removing injured on stretchers & swimming into Rhine to rescue engineers clinging to drift wood. Removing bodies. Aerial over destroyed bridge. 10:57:38 Title: E.T.O. British Jet Plane. 10:57:45 British jet plane Gloucester Meteor, similar to USA P80 Shooting Star is tested, taxiis & taking off, fly-overs. 10:58:29 Title: North America M-69 Incendiary Bomb. Soldier shows cheese-cloth soak of jellied gasoline / napalm. Lights & CU of burning napalm. Fired against wall & setting on fire where it splashes. 10:59:10 Men assembling bombs at the Mays Landing, New Jersey Arsenal. Loading B-25 for tests; take-off & dropping at Edgewood, Maryland Arsenal. Falling & igniting. WW2;