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    Those inflatable rubber "boats" look a lot like the pontoons used during the war to temporarily bridge rivers. Wikipedia has a good article on pontoon bridges...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_bridge

    I copied a couple of pictures from that article to show the resemblence to the rubber "boats"

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