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Foreword: This study shows the evolution of the Army Corps of Engineers’ responsibilities for the natural environment on Army bases. Reflecting both wartime urgencies and peacetime concerns, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Natural Resources Management on Army Installations, …Read More

Foreword: On 16 December 1944, when the 51st Engineer Combat Battalion faced the Germans’ last gasp effort to win the war, it had been operating 30 sawmills in support of the  First United States Army. Within days the battalion was …Read More

Foreword: This book marks an important anniversary in the history of our development as a nation. In 1838 Congress established the Corps of Topographical Engineers, an organization whose main purpose was the peacetime fostering of economic growth and national cohesion. …Read More

Foreword: Arthur Maass is one of the major figures in the development of water policies and planning procedures in the post-World War II era. An early critic of Corps of Engineers planning procedures, as evidenced in his well-known book Muddy …Read More

Foreword: The history of water resources in the United States is long and complicated. The issues are complex and will no doubt remain that way, for problems dealing with water quality and quantity are not always easily resolvable. They involve …Read More

Foreword: As the 40th anniversary of the Korean War approaches, we in the Corps of Engineers should reexamine how our predecessors overcame the engineering challenges posed by the rugged and unforgiving environment in which that war was fought. A number …Read More

Foreword: The U.S. Army’s role as an instrument of foreign policy is usually viewed in a strictly military sense. This book tells the story of an Army agency supporting national objectives in a different way. It traces the development of …Read More

Foreword: Few laws have had such an impact on the United States Army Corps of Engineers as the 1936 Flood Control Act. For over 50 years before passage of this act, Congress had been periodically charging the Corps with flood …Read More

Foreword: This is the sixth publication in the Engineer Memoirs series of career interviews. The series contains the selected recollections of major figures in recent Corps history. These memoirs lend important perspective to decision making, now and in the future. …Read More

FOREWORD: At a time when serious questions are being raised about the manner in which the nation utilizes its water resources, it is important to gain the insights of past leaders in the field of water resources development. This volume …Read More

Foreword: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned and supervised the construction of the United States’ section of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The project was both a massive engineering effort and an unusually complicated exercise in intergovernmental cooperation. Local, state, …Read More

Foreword: This is the first in a new series of Corps of Engineers Historical Studies which we hope will make available to Corps personnel and general public significant documents in Engineer history.  Subsequent numbers in the series will reprint previously …Read More