Bridges

Typical improvised bridge replacement for those destroyed by Communists in Anshan, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations tour. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Le Grand Viaduc le Funiculaire du Pic du Jer. Viaduct of a mountain railway at Lourdes, lying in the first Pyrenean foothills in southwestern France. Lourdes is the site of a Roman Catholic shrine. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Passerelle des Chemins de fer et des Pietons (bridge) in Bordeaux, France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

The Corneille bridge and the Cathedral in Rouen, France, after World War I. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Boieldieu bridge and the Cathedral in Rouen, France, just after World War I. From the Papers of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Group of men viewing plaque on the Harry S. Truman Bridge, Kansas City, Missouri, with Independence, Missouri mayor Roger Sermon second from right. Others unidentified. The plaque states: "For Harry S. Truman, who in the midst of the most devastating and extensive war of all time, became the 32nd President of the United States of America, this structure is named the President Harry S. Truman Bridge, and is dedicated to the service of this nation in war and peace by the railroads that built it. The Milwaukee Road, H.A. Scandrett, Trustee; Rock Island Lines, J.D.

View of the Harry S. Truman Bridge, with workmen and dignitaries. All are unidentified. From: Kansas City Chamber of Commerce (Foto Service - 1317-9).

Plaque on Harry S. Truman Bridge, as follows: "For Harry S. Truman, who in the midst of the most devastating and extensive war of all time, became the 32nd President of the United States of America, this structure is named the President Harry S. Truman Bridge, and is dedicated to the service of this nation in war and peace by the railroads that built it. The Milwaukee Road, H.A. Scandrett, Trustee; Rock Island Lines, J.D. Farrington, Chief Executive Officer Kansas City, MO - May 23, 1945" From: Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Le Grand Pont du Centre, Angers, France. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.

Unknown location, World War I, appears to be a bridge. From an album of Lorain H. Cunningham, who served in the 129th Field Artillery during World War I and was a friend of Harry S. Truman.