How Engineers Designed Pontoon Bridges to Support 50-Ton Shermans — In 3-Hour Deployment
Автор: Underground Chronicles
Загружено: 2025-11-06
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March the twenty-third, nineteen forty-five.
The Rhine River — near the shattered German town of Wesel.
Before dawn, the fog still hung low across the water — thick, damp, and gray as gunmetal. Along the western bank, engineers of the U.S. Ninth Army crouched in silence beside long rows of aluminum pontoons. Their uniforms were soaked through with river mist. Motors idled softly, muffled under tarps.
Somewhere behind them, the thunder of heavy artillery broke the stillness — not to destroy targets now, but to mask the sound of their own preparations. For weeks, everyone in the Allied command had known that crossing the Rhine — Germany’s last great natural barrier — would mark the beginning of the end.
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