A modern bridge, not the Bridge Too Far
Today's photo-of-the-day is from the Rhine River in Netherlands. If you're
of a certain age, you might remember the epic war film "A Bridge Too
Far". It depicted a failed Allied military operation in Nazi-occupied
Netherlands during World War II. Thousands of Allied soldiers were air dropped
behind enemy lines. The objective was the bridge at Arnhem. Capturing that
would cut off the German army from retreat and give the Allies a safe crossing
of the Rhine to invade Germany. The problem was that the road to the bridge
was a single lane across marshy land, with several key bridges to capture on
the way to Arnhem.
