Truck crossing bridge constructed by US engineers in Italy on 1944-45
U.S. Army Signal Corp photograph, Gift in Memory of William F. Caddell, Sr., from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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212.Photograph. ton truck crossing a Bailey bridge that uses the bridge supports of the bombed bridge it replaces. Next to this bridge combat engineers are flooring a more substantial bridge supported by piers of wooden pilings that are braced diagonally and with a truss structure. Italy. 1944-45
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Signal Corps photographs from the service of William F. Caddell, Sr. taken from the Fall of Rome through the end of the war.
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Italia
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42.833
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12.833
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Bridge construction--Italy
Adaptive reuse--Italy
Trucks--American--Italy
Engineers--Italy