This incredibly rare and museum-grade Rhine River Campaign WWII 1945 combat assault map was used by General Omar Bradley's First Army in 1945 as U. Infantry and Armored Divisions advanced into Germany and crossed the Rhine River. The combat sector this U. Assault map shows is where the FRIST US ARMY crossed the Rhine River and battled the GERMAN FIFTH PANZER ARMY and the GERMAN FIFTEENTH ARMY. The Rhine was more than a river. It was a sacred waterway to the Germans, the source of most of their legends and myths. And at this stage in the war, crossing the Rhine was the last barrier ...