The bridge also crops up in Jeffey Archer's novel "Kane and Abel" (spoiler alert!) - Abel, a hotelier by trade, signs up for the US Army and to his displeasure is assigned to the Catering Corps. His perceived arch-rival William Kane becomes an officer in the infantry. On delivering food to the US camp west of the river at Remagen, Abel and his men are commanded to leave the food and cross the bridge as stretcher bearers because a US battalion has crossed the bridge but been ambushed on the other side. Gradually the stretcher party diminishes as its members return carrying wounded soldiers until only Abel and one other man are left. They then come across the battalion's medical officer who has just finished bandaging an officer who has received severe facial injuries. Abel carries him back to camp, unwittingly saving the life of the man he'd sworn to destroy!
Don't know if that could be worked in as a cameo?