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![Sir, you shouldn't be all the way up here. You could be kille- JUST BUILD THE BRIDGE Thanks for getting here before the Ivans. I surrender my entire army. Please do not resist. Eisenhower feared that the Russians would beat Montgomery to Wismar and march into Denmark, he assigned Ridgway's XVIII Airborne Corps to stop them. "No one could build a fire under Monty better than Ridgway." recalled Bradley Ridgway put his bridge builders to work. German artillery began to pound the engineers To encourage them to continue, Ridgway walked out on the bridge and determined that there was little danger In Ridgway's sector, Gen. Kurt von Tippelskirch surrendered Matthew Ridgway the entire 21. Armee, about 150,000 troops. & The Race for Denmark XVIII Airborne Corps had thrust the sixty miles to Wismar] just two hours before the Red Army arrived.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/813/491/e1b.png "The Man Who Saved Denmark (and later Korea) | History Memes")
