Some engineering problems

Abstract

It will help delegates to realize something of the range and magnitude of Service equipment problems if I touch on a few of the many important items which concern the Corps of Engineers in their preparations for war. The Engineers' role in battle is to assist our own forces to maintain their mobility by the passage of obstacles of every, description, the construction of roads and tracks and by meeting the Air Force's requirements airfields and air-strips. Secondly, to deny mobility to the enemy's forces by creating obstacles by demolitions and the destruction of materials, and by the construction of weapon positions and shelters. And lastly to support the administrative machine by supplying water, bulk fuel, power and Engineer stores where required, by meeting the Army's Transportation needs and in numerous other ways dependent on Engineering.