Tank bridges speeded victory
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Tank bridges speeded victory
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Tank bridges speeded victory
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SELF_PROPELLED bridges, carried and
laid by British tanks without a single
man having to leave the tanks or be exposed
to enemy fire, speeded the armored thrusts
across France and into Germany by span-
ning small rivers and canals, surmounting
antitank ditches and concrete emplacements,
and scaling cliffs, sea walls, and other ob-
stacles. They are now being used by British
troops in Burma.
One type is the “scissors bridge,” carried
folded on top of a Valentine tank and auto-
matically opened across a gap. Another is
the Churchill bridgelayer, a 30-foot span
steel trackway mounted on a Churchill tank
and built to carry 38 tons. This bridge is
raised by a hydraulic arm and lowered
across the gap in front of the tank, which
then withdraws to make way for other
vehicles to cross.
A third type, the Ark, consists of two
trackways fixed together to form a bridge
projecting in front of the tank and held
there by steel wire rope. The Twaby Ark, a
turretless tank with fore and aft trackways,
is driven directly into a gap and extends a
track to either bank, the tank itself form-
ing the middle section of the bridge.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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67
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 147, n. 2, 1945
