Engineers of the 40th Infantry Division prepare for road building at New Britain in September 1944
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph, Gift of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, from the collection of the National WWII Museum
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Engineers of the 40th Infantry Division drive through mud with a tractor and prepare several large pieces of lumber for road building. "Road building by 40th Div engineers: rock and log corduroy support trucks across swampy ground, New Britain." New Britain. September 1944
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1944-09-
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Items from the service of Donald E. Mittelstaedt, consisting of photographs of the 161st Signal Photographic Company Combat Unit #10 which served on Espiritu Santos, Guadalcanal, New Britain, New Guinea, Noemfor, Leyte, Samar and Luzon.
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New Britain
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Soldiers--American--New Britain
Road construction--New Britain