German Panzers Ready to Cross a Pontoon Bridge

 

 

Interesting photo of a German panzer unit on the approaches to the blown bridge at Kremenchug, Ostfront. At left we can see a temporary bridge built to get across. German Army pioniere were pretty experienced at this point at quickly constructing sturdy pontoons for armored units. The truck has the symbol of "Werkstattwagen" (repair company). According to Axel Urbanke, the slide of this traffic jam at the makeshift bridge next to the blown up Dnjeper bridge near Kremenchug was taken by Obergefreiter Joseph Kleinhenz from the Brückenbau-Bataillon 751 in August 1941. The tanks could belong to the 13. Panzer Division. They have little yellow tower numbers. Its a slide of big group (320 slides) of this soldier. All slides are well labeled. Later this unit was transferred to Heeresgruppe Nord.

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