Engineer Corps, Road Building [1918-1919]

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent)
Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Production Date: 1936
Other Title(s): Historical Film, No. 1495

Scope & Content: Reel 1, 532nd Engrs. blast rock at Neufchateau, France. 28th Engrs. operate rock-crushing machinery. Wounded arrive by train at Aulnois. Prisoners load trucks with crushed rock. 23rd Engrs. repair railroad track at Mandres. Shows gas tractors and steam rollers at work. Rock is crushed and the Tours-Dijon road repaired. Reel 2, 108th Engrs. repair a road near Brabant. 101st Engrs. fill shellholes with logs and rock. 28th Engrs. quarry stone at Haucourt. 23rd, 103rd., 108th, and 111th Engrs. repair roads near Forges and Haucourt. Ruined buildings are torn down in Nantillois and St. Remy by 304th and 544th Engrs. 23rd Engrs. crush rock at Limey. 308th Engrs. salvage rock from the ruins of Cuisy. 23rd Engrs. operate a road roller near Villers. Negro troops of the 537th Engrs. use pile drivers to construct a bridge across the Aire River near Boreuilles. 4th Engrs. cover shell craters with small wooden bridges. 107th Engrs. construct roads and bridges over abandoned trenches near Vauquois. 27th Engrs. reconstruct a bridge over the Meuse River at Velosnes.

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National Archives Identifier: 24996
Local Identifier: 111-H-1495

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