U.S. combat engineers build bridge over the Ill River. U.S.

U.S. combat engineers build bridge over the Ill River. U.S. combat engineering under fire push a section of a Bailey brdige into place, to spen the River III naar Niederehnheim, France. U.S. armor and infantry are waiting for the completion of the bridge in the last hours of the battle against the Golmer pocket, begun January 20, 1945, and finished February 9 at eight o'clock A.M. It was officially announced at Sixth Army Group headquarters February 10 that the 19th German Army had been eliminated as an effective force with the destruction of six infantry divisions and one armered brigade during the three-week campaign against the Colmar pocket in Alsaco.