Word: pontoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crossed a 23-mile pontoon bridge to safety...
...bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...
...enough damage to force the German bombers to fly in smaller formations, German fighters to patrol in large units to protect them. One notable achievement of the Allied air arm was a violent air attack on the German columns advancing on Sedan. Though outnumbered, they succeeded in destroying pontoon bridges, breaking up tank concentrations. That day the Germans claimed to have downed 200 Allied planes, but the French estimated that at least five German mechanized divisions were temporarily prevented from pouring into the Sedan salient...
...rolled into position on the Rhine facing Switzerland, but big guns of the French Maginot Line opened up with a terrific shelling of communication lines which Nazis would use to attack the Swiss. On Lake Constance, in full view of Swiss watchers on the farther shore, German troops practiced pontoon and rubber-boat warfare daily...
...first time in six months Allied anti-aircraft fire began to work effectively in this sector. . . . The long arm of the French heavy artillery . . . became a serious threat to the German pontoon-building operations...