German bridging apparatus...SBG on stilts.

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I have several pictures of an German expedient type bridging that I'm not entirely familiar with. It's not the common floating treadway that we're used to seeing. The best I can come with to describe it is Small Box Girder bridging on stilts. The pictures smack of trials as both the PzKpfw 38(t) and the PzKpfw IV neither look war weary nor are they cluttered with the usual kit of an operational area, further, the PzKpfw IV has the L24 main gun suggesting this was early in the war while trials of various bridging techniques may have been ongoing. The stilts don't look very sturdy, while they are handling the 22 tons of Panzer IV well enough, this set up wouldn't have handled the weight and width of the V's and VI's yet to come.