RE: Bridge Building tricks
As for the circumstances which prompted my note: Had the light bridge option been available, my two infantrty divisions wouldn't have been waiting for the heavy bridge that was taking two full battalions 12 hours to build. Those rivers in the Ardennes/Belgium theater aren't exactly Denieper size, more like large streams; hell, even the Rhine isn't that big. 1940 military organizations were, and please correct me if I'm wrong, able to cross essentially tiny rivers without much problem. Running a foot bridge across a river that's 50 yards wide shouldn't take all day. von Egan
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