Word: pontooned
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Next day the bombers returned, found German pontoon bridges mending some of the gaps, smoke pots placed for protection. Wind waved the smoke aside. At the end of 72 hours, 28 bridges (rail and pontoon) were out. Said Uncle Joe, one of the war's great tactical air-forcemen: "This is an outstanding feat in the history of aerial warfare...
...From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...
...maybe not. What suspicious Reader Ingold saw was the end section of a pontoon used by LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) to float the ramp when it cannot get up to a beach...
...next morning reconnaissance elements from the south had circled both "enemy" flanks, the river crossing had been forced in two places with pontoon bridges, the armored division was pressing north so vigorously that the defenders seemed in a fair way to be driven right back into the airborne division's command post...
While the French, with heartbreaking effort, improvised a pontoon bridge over the River Tagus, Dodd crawled the better part of 50 miles, among enemies, to destroy it. When, at last, Dodd tried to tell his story, "it was hard for a later generation to realize that [honor and duty] had meant anything...