"...Our potential targets were toward the middle of that broad area known as the Fulda Gap. Our mission was to detonate before any fighting to the east reached our area. We were not combat engineers in the sense that our mission was not intended to be carried out under fire, or at least we didn't train that way. We never trained with infantry or special security teams. It was just us - in small teams - setting up our bombs at very specific locations..."
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One specific location for my team was at the base of a tall and thick support tower of reinforced concrete that was one of several such towers along a stretch of elevated highway between two high points in the terrain. Possibly it was an "autobahn"; I'm not sure; but in any case it was a major vehicular highway somewhere north and east of Hanau. There was no population in that immediate area; it was pretty much a wooded area. The idea was that, taking down the tower, and bringing down a span with it, would create a big problem for advancing forces. They would be forced to travel below through a fairly rugged forest area. The damage to the highway would be far too great for any enemy engineers to repair in time, or to even do a temporary fix...."

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