German forces cross the Pinios River—a page from a German magazine

The German text read:

A BRIDGE IS FORMED

The Pinios Bridge in the Vale of Tempe has been blown up.

Rubber dinghies have taken the first attacking troops over. Foot soldiers and light vehicles can now get across.

By heavy travel on muddy roads, over swampy fields, through the narrow defile by Pandeleimon and along the railway embankment the bridging column reaches the Pinios. While the sappers build a new bridge near the one destroyed, vehicles are drawn across on a quickly set up ferry. Only a few hours later supplies roll over the new bridge.