CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES OF THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS IN THE U.S.A Part 1

Description

On World War I activities. Shows QM warehouses in Brooklyn under construction. The 102nd Engineers snake logs from the woods at Camp Humphries, Va., load them on freight cars, dynamite stumps, saw lumber in a mill, construct a railroad trestle, lay tracks, construct a concrete road, and erect wooden barracks. The freighter L'Enfante is unloaded at a Potomac River port. Sec. of War Baker, Gens. March, Black, and Abbott, and Col. Cornelius Vanderbilt dedicate the completed barracks.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Historical Films