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On this day, 5 May 1985

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Death of the English civil engineer Sir Donald Coleman Bailey

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Bailey invented the Bailey Bridge, a portable, prefabricated, truss bridge used from 1942 by Allied forces during WWII. By the war’s end, more than 2,000 had been assembled in north-west Europe alone, a number of them while under enemy fire.

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