European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Will Bridge builders of 9th engr in heave on lines to free rubber Bridge Pontoon from truck. "-1 a a i a m v.-?w. A. Spe clamors get an assist through the barbed wire for a close look at the River crossing. To a March ,2, 1968 the Sta san by Peter Kuhrt staff writer War seemed to have come too Bernau. Long before Dawn the Village folks heard the rumble of trucks and heavy equipment moving up the main Street and then Down to the North Bank of the main  jeeps zipped Back and Forth and soldiers in combat gear took up positions at Street Corners marking the route of traffic to a rutted dirt Road leading to the  War was Only a game of course one of River crossing training exercises staged regularly by army engineers on Europe s big Waterways to main Tain combat readiness. This main River operation was typical but then it was  big show was run by Vii corps 9th engr in headquartered at nearby Schaffenburg. Its participants about 2,000 men included infantry tankers missile men medics and of course the  unusual thing about this exer Cise said it. Col. Robert s. Kubby battalion commander is that it affords a rare Opportunity for All army unit sin Aschaffenbur to join us in a Bridge crossing under simulated combat con  engineers task was to Span the main about 400 feet wide at this Point with a so called class 60 float Bridge As Well As one of the longest footbridges Ever constructed in Europe. The Bridge equipment had been continued o Puyt it Page h