Wikipedia:<br>The Hodges bridge was one of the most important makeshift pontoon bridges of the United States armed forces across the Rhine in the second world war. It is located in Bad Godesberg (since 1969 a suburb of Bonn) at the river kilometre 647.7, between the Godesberg bastion and the Niederdollendorfer's boat landing.
 
 The Western allies needed a bridge over the Rhine, which could carry heavy loads and vehicles in 1945 for the advance to Berlin. The region around the city of Bonn offered for building bridges, roads in the surrounding area were sufficient and the water level was this low. As an exercise for the bridge, the 148th and 207. engineer battalion of the United States armed forces built a sample bridge over the Meuse at Liège in Belgium in late 1944. The Hodges bridge was then in March 1945. The bridge was the General Courtney Hicks Hodges, the Commander of the 1st army, named.
 
 207. Pioneer battalion began on the western shore, the 148th on the eastern shore. Barges were moored for this close to each other with steel cables. Then, in a roadway was built. As later again set the cargo ship traffic on the Rhine, the pontoon bridge was elevated.
 
 During the bridge construction, five frogmen of the German Wehrmacht tried to destroy the bridge. The action was unsuccessful, the swimmers were in captivity.
 
 The American supply in East direction over the bridge rolled from March 24, 1945. As of May 8, 1945 (World War II), it was used by the countless refugees since it was the only intact bridge over the Rhine. In November and December 1945, the bridge was canceled because it hindered the ship traffic on the Rhine.