Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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Pltotografl' by P. L. Bitttrick. HOW WOOD HELPS TO WIN In trench building timbers are indispensable. This shows the use of wood in throwing up trenches in the French war zone. The Engineer regiments of American foresters and woodsmen will supply materials for this pur- pose, among others. Photograph by P. L. Bnttrick. ROAD CAMOUFLAGE IN FRANCE Suggesting some of the methods applied for the purpose of misleading the enemy and prerenting him from kno^ving too much of what is being done. This shows a screen covered with pine boughs in the Champagne region. from a logging wagon upon which has fallen a small log, one takes it quite for granted. Lumber jacks dressed uniformly in horizon blue and wearing fatigue caps or steel helmets, might look like a strange setting in front of a bunk house, but after a few weeks of familiarity with men in such garb, which in active use soon takes on a work-a-day appearance, one takes them as quite a part of the scheme of things. In
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t^>fea Copyright by Vndcrivood & Underwood, New York. HOW WOOD AND WIRE HAMPER THE FIGHTERS. This mass of entanglements is directly in front of that line of trenches known as the H'ndenburg line. This line was supposed to be impregnable and the Germans had built trenches there, as showing thai they intended to stay at the place for a long time. The British soldiers of the western front cut through the entanglements and drove the enemy from his position. The picture shows the results of the cutting through.

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