Navy Seabees built road through mountainous jungles using bulldozers, shovels, dynamite and native labor; no fills in road, every foot of 7 1/2-mi length being in sidehill cut where spoil, including largest trees, was shoved over edge to seek own waste bank.


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    Title :

    Jungle roadbuilding in Trinidad


    Additional title:

    Eng News-Rec


    Contributors:
    Miscall, L. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1944


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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