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Photographer: Craig Swain
Caption: River Side View of the Altamaha River Bridge
Additional Description: The threat of sabotage was indeed real during the early days of World War II. German U-Boats were active off the coast of Georgia, particularly around Brunswick, a major coastal convoy port. The Altamaha River delta is a maze of channels and passages, and the fear was a raiding party could well sneak through to the railroad bridge. The area downstream from the bridge was, and still is, largely swamp and marsh. Even to this day, only the Interstate 95 and Coastal Highway 17 bridges cross the Altamaha downstream from this point.

The wooden poles on the lower right are part of a submerged structure. In lower water, the structure appears to be either an old wharf or sunken barge.
Submitted: January 20, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14250
File Size: 0.092 Megabytes

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