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Lumber
Timber was the engineers'
basic raw material in World War I.
The 20th Engineers, the U.S.
Army's largest regiment, and
other American forestry troops in
France produced some 200 million
board feet of lumber, 4 million
railroad ties, and thousands of
timber piles. Lieutenant Colonel
Henry Graves, on leave as the
Chief Forester of the U.S. Forest
Service, helped organize the effort.
By October 1918 American forestry
Troops of the 20th Engineers bring
engineers were operating 107
in logs
forests in the Vosges,
sawmills, primarily in southern
France.
and central France.
The 107th Engineers,
32d Division, construct a bridge
in Cierges
France, on
August
three days
the division drove the Germans
the town.
While training at
Gondrecourt
France,
in January 1918, soldiers of
the 1st Engineers, 1st Division,
use sandbags to test a bridge
they
built.
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