Word: pontoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which were smashed into rubble by the pre-invasion bombardment, and erecting a sea wall to protect port facilities. Seabees had almost finished the wall once when a tropical storm blew up, washed away all their work. Half of Guam's supplies had to be unloaded at portable pontoon piers...
...made my way back to base. As I crossed the canal, I saw that tanks were pouring over a pontoon bridge, and supply trucks were piling up where a Bailey bridge was being constructed. All being well, this battalion will be crossing another canal tomorrow night-it's onlv six miles farther...
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...