Just The Difference: American & British
While advancing in Normandy after D-Day, British and American troops met at the western end of a bridge that had been destroyed. Because of confused orders, United States Army Engineers and British Army Engineers each rushed to huild a new bridge. When the American bridge was •completed, its proud builders nailed up a sign: This bridge was built by the U.S.A. Nth Engineers, at a cost of 55,000 dollars, by seven officers and 200 men in ten hours, 25 minutes. It can take a load of 30 tons.
The officer commanding the British Engineers read the sign in silence. Then he ordered one for his own bridge: This bridge built by His Majesty’s Royal Engineers as a matter of daily routine. There is nothing unusual about it.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 17, 31 March 1950, Page 5
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132Just The Difference: American & British Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 17, 31 March 1950, Page 5
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