Engineer
commanded mixed
Port Construction
crews of engineer, cavalry, marine,
and labor troops; prisoners of war;
American soldiers, under the
and Spanish and Chinese civilians,
technicalsupervisionofengineers,
who built a lo-berth pile dock at
used these timber products to
below Bordeaux. A 3-berth
construct new and
pier built at Montoir on the
facilities for American troop and
Loire River, together with its
supply ships. Because British
rail connection to shore, required
vessels clogged French ports on
6.8 million board feet of lumber.
the English Channel, American
Dredging by French contractors
ships had to dock at Atlantic
made the docks at Montoir and
ports from Brest to Bordeaux
Brest available to vessels with
or at the Mediterranean port
ofMarseilles.
drafts.
The 33d Engineers carry a
mast
a stevedore derrick
at the port of Brest
France, in October 1918.
The derricks at this American-built dock at
could
cargo
ship holds and place it directly in waiting
railroad cars.
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