Three portable tool sets for Army Engineers: Carpenter Set, Pioneer Set and Auxiliary Set
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Three portable tool sets for Army Engineers: Carpenter Set, Pioneer Set and Auxiliary Set
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Combat tools for Army Engineers
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PRACTICALLY any kind of job is
possible to the combat squads of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers equipped
with their three new portable tool sets
illustrated here. They include tools for
building roads, bridges, barracks, and
airnields; for digging foxholes, trenches,
and drainage systems; for stringing
telephone lines, repairing railroads, and
erecting camouflage nets and road
blocks. The engineers are equally pre-
pared to demolish and wreck, and, if
need arises, to fight.
The sets emerged from experiments at
the Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va.,
where officers and men of the engineer
battalions are being trained. Most of
the tools are familiar to persons having
knowledge of construction work, but
some uncommon ones have been added.
For instance, there is the brush hook, a
strange-looking tool resembling an an-
cient weapon. At the end of a wooden
handle is a sharp curved blade, ideal for
cutting through jungles such as those
in New Guinea and the Solomons.
‘The units of this equipment are known
as the Pioneer Set, the Auxiliary Set,
and the Carpenter Set. Two or four
men are detailed to carry them, depend-
ing on the distance. Every squad has
wo of the sets, and each platoon carries
supplementary sets and extra tools.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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68
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 5, 1944
