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Image: Installing Bailey bridge across the Rhine near Wesel

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Description: Engineer combat battalions move a span of a Bailey bridge into place to build a crossing over the Rhine River, south of Wesel in Germany, for use by Allied forces. Both the 244th and the 277th worked on bridge crossings at this location.
Title: Installing Bailey bridge across the Rhine near Wesel
Credit: US Army Corps of Engineers digital library
Author: United States Army
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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