Expedient bridging

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The vehicles used to support the roadway in photo 1 are Amphibian Tractors T33 or LVT(1)s. These were the first of the LVTs to see service in large numbers and were quite primitive by later standards having no suspension whatever only guide rails for the track to run on. They had no road wheels or idlers, not even a return idler only a shoe that could be pushed out to tension the track which had rollers on the link pins that ran on the rails.

There are still quite a lot of them to be found abandoned on various Pacific islands such as Gasmata and they seem to have been treated as very expendable.

David