The incident interrupted the main transport route for a short time and the army installed a Bailey bridge until repairs were completed.
The attack went in on the night of 11 May and by 09.00 the next morning Russell's divisional engineers had erected a Bailey bridge to allow supporting armour into the bridgehead to repel German armoured counterattacks.
The larger gaps, rivers or canals, were to be crossed using Bailey bridges or ferries.
During World War 2, it was used as a ballast weight to test Bailey bridges.
Featuring an 80 meter Bailey bridge across the Omo river and five other bridges, this road cost 255 million Birr, and reduced the distance between the Regional capital at Awassa and Mizan Teferi to 400 kilometers.
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