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== Gallery == <gallery> File:"Don't tell me there's anything the engineers can't do. We built bridges where bridges couldn't be built. We built... - NARA - 535980.tif|US troops launching a Bailey bridge across a gap by hand File:The British Army in Italy 1944 NA17848.jpg|Bailey bridge over the River Arno, [[Florence]], built on the piers of the original [[Ponte Santa Trinita]] (August 1944) File:French barges support Bailey bridging over the Seine at Mantes.jpg|[[Barges]] being used to support Bailey bridging over the [[Seine]] at [[Mantes]], France, August 1944 File:Engineers slide bailey bridging into place at Wesel.jpg|U.S. [[combat engineer]]s slide stacked doubled sections of Bailey bridging into place at [[Wesel]] on the [[Rhine]] in Germany (c. 1945) File:Sherman-river-Garigliano-IWM NA 11067.jpg|A [[M4 Sherman|Sherman tank]] and a Jeep ferried across the river [[Garigliano]], central Italy, using a raft constructed from pontoons and a section of Bailey bridge (January 1944) File:119th Armored Engineer Battalion Wurzburg fortress Baily Bridge.jpg|Bailey bridge built over bombed out bridge at base of [[Marienberg Fortress]] in [[Würzburg]] by the 119th Armored Engineer Battalion of the [[12th Armored Division (United States)|U.S. 12th Armored Division]], April 1945 File:Bailey bridge, Wadi el Kuf, Libya.JPG|Bailey bridge over the Wadi el Kuf, [[Libya]], with bridge sections used to construct the supports (2007) File:Sudan Juba bridge.jpg|[[Juba Nile Bridge]] over the [[White Nile]], [[Juba, South Sudan]] (1975) File:Whitefish Falls Ontario.jpg|Bailey bridge at [[Whitefish Falls]], Ontario, Canada (2006) File:Combat engineers inspect a bridge on Route Arnhem in Iraq.jpg|[[Combat engineer]]s inspect a bridge on Route Arnhem in Iraq (2009) File:Bailey Bridge 7.jpg|Construction of Bailey bridge in 1970 File:Bailey-Coppename River.jpg|Bailey bridge over the [[Coppename River]] at Bitagron, Suriname (1976) File:BaileyBridge.jpg|Bailey bridge serving as a pedestrian/bike lane in Nijlen (Belgium) File:The_British_Army_in_Burma_1944_SE835.jpg|The {{convert|1100|ft|m}} bridge over the Chindwin, in Burma, nearing completion in 1944. (The sections were constructed on a tributary and floated downstream on pontoons.) File:Bailey bridge barge.webp|3D sketch of a bailey bridge barge dock being developed by China to potentially invade Taiwan </gallery>
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