Logistics of Bridge Building

A launching nose is what we used and there’d be on the back seat on the other side they’d go over and they’d, four or five or six engineers would go over and they’ get the banshee ready and level and then the launch nose would come over and just carry on and then they disconnect the launch nose and the bridge would be just, bridge and shove her out, build some more and shove it out and build so much more. It was kind of what clashed or hitting. For dry gaps you used 80, Class 80, and then you’d, weight, for weight you’d go higher. The first ones they’d get is the light weights to go over and get them going. So it was mostly all infantry, but then when the tanks came along you’d have to have a heavier bridge. There was singles, and there was doubles and there was triples. We carried the 85th Bridge Company with us. So they were with us all the time. They probably have enough bridging on their vehicles to do probably a hundred and twenty foot dry gap or if we’re going the other way on platoons, they’d have their boats.