Fondos fotográficos: ES 35001 AMC-CFH-000657

Título: Soldiers build a bridge. [Fotografías de la 2ª guerra mundial].

Descriptor geográfico: Inglaterra.

Autor: Desconocido

Fecha de la fotografía: 1939-45

Objeto fotográfico: Copia positiva en papel de gelatina D.O.P. de revelado químico

Descripción: Plano general de la construcción de un puente sobre un río por medio de pontones durante la segunda guerra mundial. En la imagen se observa a soldados de ingenieros británicos con chalecos salvavidas colocando los pontones y a altos mandos supervisando la maniobra. En el reverso de la fotografía hay una hoja adherida con una inscripción escrita a máquina en lengua inglesa donde se lee lo siguiente: " SOLDIERS BUILD A BRIDGE. / The engineer´s job in the modern Army is vastly more complex / than it was even during the last war. The speed of troop / movements, carried out by mechanical and motorised units. / requiros intensive and fast preparations by the engineers. / Obstacles have to be removed, fortifications and trenches to / be built, bridges have to be flung across rivers. To train / the men to highes t efficiency, work such as bridge-building / is strictly timed. These photographs show Royal Engineers / constructing a pontoon-bridge across a river 60 yards wide. / By perfectly organised co-operation, the job was done within / a few hours. The finished bridge was strong enough to allow / even heavy tanks to pass it safely at considerable speed. / O.P.S. the last pontoon is being placed in positicion. / PLP 8128." Cerca del borde inferior del reverso de la fotografía hay un sello impreso en tinta negra en el que se lee: "3, RACQUET COURT, / FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C.4. / TELEPHONE CENTRAL 6677 "

Fondo fotográfico: Fotografía histórica