PONTON BRIDGE BUILT BY 58TH ENGINEERS Part 1

Description

Summary: A cargo treadway truck, carrying a large ponton backing up slowly toward camera and shoreline. Bulldozer pushing dirt. MLSs, ponton being lowered from the treadway truck. Men around ponton on the shore. The boom on the treadway truck picking up ponton. LS, RV, truck with the ponton moving down the road away from camera. The treadway with ponton approaching river's edge. MCU, MLS, men filling bags with dirt. MLS, men place bags along water's edge. MLS, ponton being lowered to the water by the boom on treadway truck incomplete. Men adjusting the treads on the ponton after the ponton has been let down into the water. Aboard one of the launches pulling the ponton section in the river. This is near Munsan-ni. HS, general activity. Several treadway trucks in the fg; men standing on pontons, etc. MLS, ponton being floated to position near the shore. MLS, HS, portable crane letting down an upright and crosspiece into the water. The crane letting down sections. A ponton with truck and men moving across the river. MLS, looking out twd bridge, men working on the sections. Men at one completed section as another section is floated to be put into place. MLS, showing the bridge about two-thirds completed. Lt Gen Frank Milburn, I Corps Comd, standing on finished section with some officers. CU, Milburn. MS, Milburn getting into jeep with several other men. Korean troops on an M-46 tank. LS, M-46 tank starting to cross new ponton bridge. MLS, other M-46s with some troops atop waiting to cross. MS, tank with a few US soldiers atop as it starts moving onto the bridge.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities