Platform for Fast River Crossing
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Platform for Fast River Crossing
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Wheeled Pontons Give Fast, Safe River Crossing
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extracted text (Extract Text)
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SPEEDIER, safer river cross-
ings by our troops are
promised by a trailer ponton
bridge invented by Andrew
Jackson Higgins, New Orleans
builder of the famous PT boat.
The bridge consists of a string
of wheeled barges that can be
hauled overland. At a stream’s
edge, the lead barge is hitched to a cable
reel carried by an amphibian tank which
swims the stream and reels in the cable,
drawing the bridge across. When the bridge
is in position, engineer troops swing over-
side hinged sections folded across the barges,
providing an eight-foot driveway and two
four-foot walkways. Folding end plates
“marry” the barges. A single ponton unit
powered by an outboard motor can be used
as a ferry to transport mechanized equip-
ment and men.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-12
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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58
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, vol. 143, n. 6, 1943
