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British veteran Edwin Hunt comes to pay tribute to the bridge's designer, Dutch Second Lieutenant Constant Lambrechtsen.

British veteran Edwin Hunt comes to pay tribute to the bridge’s designer, Dutch Second Lieutenant Constant Lambrechtsen.

Rias Immink

EXERCISE – The thousands of motorists who daily drive across the Maasbrug near Gennep will have no idea that military history has been written in their field of view. In January 1945, British engineers built the longest Bailey Bridge ever here. Major Ted Hunt (102) returned on Wednesday to pay tribute to his Dutch colleague who was the mastermind behind it.

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