LOADS OF, THE ARMORED THE: ENG NE aR "gong THE ENGINEER EXISTS SOLELY OUR ENGINEERS BOARD 18 AN INSTITUTION WHICH FOR THESPURPOSE OF JNSURING THAT IN THE FIELD WILL HAVE A SUIT@ ABLE ITEM OF EQUIPMENT FOR EVERY NEED, THE B@ARB 1S LOCATED AT FORT BELVOIR, WIRGIMIA. PROw JECTS ON WHICH THE BOARD WORKS ORIGINATE IN VARIOUS WAYS: DEFINITE NEEDS, USUALLY THOSE FOLLOWING FROM SOME NEW DEVELOPMENT IN TACTICS OR TECHNIQUES DEVELOPMENTS CLUDING OUSTRYs IN FOREIGN (iNew ENEMY) ARMI'ESs DEVELOPMENTS IN 1 New IDEAS OF. INDIVIDUALS, Et THER: SOLDIERS OR CIVILIANS, ghitcre BY FAR. THE: GREATEST: NUMBER’ OF ENGINEER BOARR DEVELOPMENTS ARE THE RESULTS OP DEF} Ne ITE NEEDS. | ANY NUMBER’ 1S°A “CASE YN ene, Tel eat ~ 1S PRIOR TO 1939 OUR ENGINEERS+HAD ‘ONLY A ‘LARGE WATER PURIFICATION UNIT, SIMPLAR “TO (ANO THE. FORERUNNER OF) THE MOBILE UNITe WITH THE SPREAD OF MOTORIZATION THROUGH ALL ELEMENTS OF THE ARMY, THE PROBLEM-OP WATER SUPPLY iN. THE FIELD UNDERWENT & CHANGE.” THE NEW MOe BLLITY WHICH HAD COME TO WAR was’ EXPRESSED JN-OUR ARMY,“IN THE TACTICS OF THE MOBILE "CONBAT TEAMS". ' THE: EXISTING WATER PURIFICAm TION UNIT ‘WAS TOO UNWIELDY To KEEP’ UP WITH| A MOTORIZED COMBAT TEAM, AND 1TS CAPACITY WAS UNNECESSARILY SMALLER UNIT, LARGE, HIGHLY (TANKS UP TO CARRY THE MEDIUM TANKS, AND WOULD BE SATIG= FACTORY AS AN ARMORED FORCE BRIOGE, HOWEVER, ‘1T OCCURRED TO CERTAIN ENGINEER OFFICERS IN THE ARMORED FORCE THAT A BRIDGE INVOLVING INFLATABLE FLOATS INSTEAD OF ALUMINUM PONTONS, AND STEEL TREADWAYS INSTEAD OF TRADITIONAL WOODEN FLOORING, MENT. THESE WOULD ee Ae BE A DISTINCT WORKED OUT IMPROVE= THEIR ON PAPER, FUNDS: FOR PILOT MODELS WERE PROVIDED, AND THE NEW BRIBGE 18 THE. RESULT. INCIDENTALLY, THEIR OUT WORKED QUESTION 1N AS THE OFFICERS IDEAS, ANB AS THEY TESTED THE PILOT MODELS, THEY WERE GIVEN EVERY ASSISTANCE BY THE: EXe~ PERTS OF. THE ENGINEER BOARD, == =. THE ORIGINS JUST | WHAT CERN OF EQUIPMENT BORROWED ARE, THE ASSAULT BOAT OR WHAT WAS NEEDED WAS A MOBILE AND QUICK TO SET ‘Ge ITEM THE GERMANS IDEA FOR A POWERFUL FROM MOTORIZED: SOMEONE WHO LIKELY IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE, ‘ OF & GIVEN INSTANCE BORROWED (CONTINUED NEXT WEEK ) sd SE : yatta rata N INCOMING PROPERTY BRANCH AWB WAS. INSTRUCTED TO DEVELOP A SUITABLE UNIT. THE PORTABLE UNIT WAS THE RESULT. Ry OUR SECTION, SFEMS RATHER DESERTED SINCE.” SEVERAL MEMBERS OF. OUR PERSONNEL TRANSFERRED, MARIE NELSON AND JANE WYATT ARE, NOW WORKING: MANY CALLY OF SUCH MENT " Mine g Po A WORTHY: ITEM: OF desiedte BORN:’ANO CASES WHICH INVOLVE,EXISTING SATISFACTORY, t re oni: BRED IN THE FIELD ARE ITSELAB, ITEMS:OF 4ND WHICH MOST EQUIP. THERE FORE ARE NOY ON THE ;PROJEOT<SCHEOULE «DF THE: ENG}NEER FIELD BOARD, SOLDIER,. MENTs AN BUT ARE EXAMPLE WHICH ‘IN THE EVES OF “Some SUSCEPTIBLE OF IN POINT 1S !IMPROVE.s OFFERED BY ‘THE © IN TRANSPORTATION, CARVER ARE AMONG THE TORICAL DIVISION OF HEADQUARTERS,- DOROTHY JENSEN'S NEW HOME 1,6 THE WAREHOUSE, AGNES PHILLIPS? NEW 106° 4% IN THE 1,8+Me, EDYTHE WE HOPE TULLEY 18 AT HOME WITH HER FAMILY. THEY ARE ALL ENJOYING THEIR NEW POSITIONS. A FAREWELL PARTY WAS GIVEN IN HONOR OF MILDRED HORNER LAST SATURDAY, SHE WAS ONE OF AS HEAVY=DUTY FLOATING 8RIDGES ARE CONCERNED, THE THE PRIMARY PURPOSE: OF GETTING y A THE HEAVY *” io las : s? ‘ © = SOPHIE TIPPETTS AND CAROL PERSONNEL OF THE HiS— "ARMORED FORCE PONTON BRIDGE", THIS BRIDGE, WHICH 1S REVOLUTIONARY .IN PRINCIPLE AS FARHAS ‘ ‘ MANY A WORTHY 1TEM OF EQUIPMENT HAS 1TS INCEPTION, JN,FOREIGN ARMIES. STEEL BOX GIRDER | BRIDGES, WERE DEVELOPED BY BRITISH MILITARY ENGINEERS | UN, THE. YEARS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR le PNEUMATIC FLOATS, SIMILAR TO THOSE* ADAPTED TO THE USES OF THE ARMORED FORCE BRIDGE, HAVE BEEN USED BY THE GERMAN.ENGINEERS FOR MANY YEARSe ANOEED,. (T,1S OFTEN DIFFICULT TO DISe= UP AND PISMANTLE.’ THE ENGINEER BOARD WAS GIVEN THOSE GENERAL MILITARY CHARACTERIETICS ; 7 IDEAS OF- EXAMPLES COULD BE CITED, FOR ALMOST ° EVERY ITEM’ OF ENGINEER EQUIPMENT OIVISION 30° Tons) ACROGS RIVERS@eQUICKLYs THE STANDARD "HEAVY PONTON AND TRESTLE EQUIPMENT" WILL FIRST EMPLOYEES OF THE ENG) NEER SECTION AT THIS DEPOT, WEPRE GOING TO.MISS YOU A LOT: (CONTINUED ON PAGE 15) /