The 127th Combat Engineer Battalion built a pontoon bridge across the Pasig River which refugees use to escape fighting in Manila in the Philippines in 1945
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
Description:
"127th Combat Engrs built pontoon bridge across Pasig River which refugees use to escape fighting in Manila." [1945]
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1945
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
Geography:
Manila
Latitude:
14.617
Longitude:
120.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Philippines
Pontoon bridges--Philippines
Rivers--Philippines
Bridge construction--Philippines