Word: pontooned
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...Army engineers, interrupted by enemy fire, had labored to lay rubber pontoons, then wood crosspieces, finally steel tracks just wide enough for the 28-ton General Grants. At dusk the light tanks had crept out of the woods and skipped across the oily Cumberland River on the new pontoon bridge. When the mediums came down to cross, puncturing the dark with their exhaust flashes and red signal lights, the shore was lighted for safety's sake, making a 200-yard circle of yellow dust-fog through which turrets poked, each with its pygmy...
Behind the Russians in Stalingrad a two-mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
...first Army exercises were fought out in North Carolina and Louisiana. Men slogged through river mud throwing pontoon bridges across turgid rivers. They trudged down back roads in flanking maneuvers, dust caking sweaty faces. They took cover (as they did not last year) when strafing "enemy" planes swooped over. They used motorized, mechanized spearheads, employed fifth columnists to gain objectives...
Though the Germans have established at least two bridgeheads across the Don in the Tsimlyanskaya area 125 miles east and slightly north of Rostov, late dispatches said, Soviet artillery has smashed a score of pontoon bridges there, as well as sinking several score rafts and rubber boats laden with thousands of enemy troops and equipment...
...Germans crossed the Don. On sunny days, Russian shells and bullets from the eastern bank and bombs from the sky raised bright geysers around the bodies of the dead. On a cloudy day, when the Stormoviks flew low at the pontoon bridges and rubber boats of the invaders, many a German trooper's last sight in life was the dappled carpet of rain on the river. Along the western bank, where bombs and shells clawed great gaps in the lines of trucks and tanks, Germans died by thousands, and hospital trains bore many more thousands to the rear...