Word: pontooned
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...Army tank, nosing across a creek near Fort Knox, Ky. on a slithery pontoon bridge, slid off into water up to its turret top. That annoying accident suggested to Lieut. Colonel Thomas Henry Stanley (16th Engineers) that it was about time the Army developed a new kind of pontoon bridge for mechanized warfare. The old bridge of planks on boats had not been radically changed since the Civil War, although as early as 1846 the U.S. Army was experimenting with rubber pontoons...
Pioneer Equipment (Samuel Goldwyn) is a simple explanation of how to tie various hitches (mooring, rolling, cats-paw, half, etc.) for building pontoon bridges, moving materiel, securing tents. Best feature is the clarity of its explanations and the crafty way the camera has of keeping clearly focused on the role played by the rope...
...their primary soldiering in big doses, soon pass on to specialized training. Some will join combat regiments and battalions, will go into battle with infantry and artillery, lugging in motor trains a fantastic assortment of bulldozers, water-purification outfits, pneumatic drills, earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot companies...
Previously the Nazis, guarding against R. A. F. bombing, had removed their Danube pontoon bridges by day, replaced them by night, transported huge quantities of materiel onto Bulgarian soil. Telephone communication to Sofia was cut except for Government business. There were widespread arrests of "men with British interests." Agents were buying millions of Bulgarian levas (1?) for the Nazi quartermaster corps. On the day the pact was signed Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons...
Over the Yugoslav railroads sealed freight trains carrying German war machinery kept rumbling toward the Bulgarian border. The German forces in Rumania were said to total 600,000, and across the early swollen Danube between Rumania and Bulgaria Nazi engineers had already thrown a network of pontoon bridges...