Patton's Fighting Bridge Builders: Company B, 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment

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ix Illustrations Cadre, 1303rd EGSR, Camp Ellis, 1943 6 Private Looper with truck, Camp Ellis 8 Assembling foot bridge, Camp Ellis 10 Setting bridge abutment, Camp Ellis 10 Machine-gun emplacement during maneuvers, 1944 13 Moving heavy aluminum ponton, Camp Ellis, 1943 14 Positioning heavy pontons for bridging, Camp Ellis, 1943 14 Launching heavy rubber pontons for bridging, Camp Ellis, 1943 15 Officers, Company B, 1303rd, in England, 1944 23 Organization of the Theater of Operations 27 Crane placing steel beams for Troyes bridge, France, 1944 46 Setting steel and air compressor on Troyes bridge, France, 1944 46 Troyes bridge, completed 47 Pompey bridge, France, 1944 54 Drawing of bridge at Pompey 54 Gen. George S. Patton 59 Drawing of Toul bridge 63 Decking the Toul bridge, 1944 64 Toul bridge completed (roadway view) 64 Toul bridge completed (side view) 65 Crowd watching soldiers check Troyes bridge 66 Flood waters rising at Toul bridge 67 Toul bridge destroyed by floodwaters 72 Decking of Troyes bridge in floodwaters 73 Manuel F. Gonzalez, George R. Sant, and Robert E. Bolle 93 Drawing of stringer-beam placement, Diekirch bridge 95 Drawing of Diekirch bridge 96 Drawing of the Kyllburg bridge 113 Earl E. Hall at the Kyllburg bridge 114 Eisenschmidt bridge 118 Drawing of the Gelnhausen bridge 126 Gelnhausen timber-trestle bridge underneath a Bailey Bridge, 1945 128 Drawing of the Schluchtern bridge 129 Harras bridge 132 Placing explosives on destroyed autobahn bridging, Bayreuth, 1945 134 Drawing of autobahn bridge, Bayreuth 134 End elevation for autobahn bridge, Bayreuth 135 Bailey stringers for beams on autobahn bridge, Bayreuth 136 Building on rubble, autobahn bridge, Bayreuth 137 Completed autobahn bridge, Bayreuth 139 Last bridge the company built 143 Regimental V-E Day dinner 145 Manuel F. Gonzalez, Japan, 1945 170 Company B officers, Japan, 1945 171 Organizational structure of Third Army 181 Pile-bent bridge, Toul, France 190 Bailey Bridge, Kerzel 190 Timber-trestle bridge, Kerzel 191 Bailey Bridge classification scheme 191 Disassembling a Bailey Bridge, Spring 1945 192 Ambulance crossing a timber-trestle bridge 192 x ILLUSTRATIONS ...