Small Box Girder

[1] It was typically carried on a tank, such as the Churchill Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE), and could be deployed without engineers having to expose themselves to enemy fire.

Pre-war the SBG had (more often than not without permission) quickly been copied by many countries around the world, including Germany.

The German Army called their version of the SBG the Kastenträgergerät (K-Gerät for short).

[2] The United States was another country whose army created their own copy, designating it the H-20.

The SBG was used during the Normandy invasion of World War II (1944–5).