One Day Over the Rhine Is Here
One Day Over the Rhine is finally here.
This book began with three men: Lieutenant Tom Carr, PFC Billy Kane, and Corporal Eddie Ryan of the 717th Tank Battalion. Their lives converged inside a Sherman tank in Dinslaken, Germany, during Operation Plunder in March 1945, and what happened there bound their families together long after the war ended.
I have spent years following these men through letters, military records, family archives, photographs, battlefields, cemeteries, and the places where they once stood. What began as a family-commissioned history became something much larger: a story about friendship, sacrifice, memory, and the long reach of a single day of war.
I am very proud to finally send them out into the world.
Erin Faith Allen is an investigative war historian and the founder of Fortitude Research, specializing in WWII archival research, wartime reconstruction, Holocaust documentation, and the recovery of women's wartime histories. She is a leading authority on the 42nd "Rainbow" Infantry Division, inluding their liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Her family-commissioned book, One Day Over the Rhine, was published in 2026.
All original photographs and written work published on this site are copyright Erin Faith Allen. Historical and archival images are used where they exist in the public domain.
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