Items Tagged with 'World War 2'

This 1944 cover image shows a crew of Navy Seabees placing steel mats for an airstrip somewhere in the Pacific.

This June 1944 cover image shows a Navy Seabee driving a bulldozer out from the hold of a landing craft onto the beach of an unnamed Pacific island.

Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts.

This 1944 cover image is one of the first photos to be published of a Bailey Bridge, a piece of equipment that proved invaluable to the Allies in World War II, and has since gone into wide use globally.

With German forces having heavily fortified the French coast and every French port by the middle of 1944 during World War II, the Allies faced the difficult problem of how to unload all the troops, weapons, ammunition, fuel and other supplies on the Normandy beachheads.

This cover photo shows Chinese engineers constructing a hand-made wooden bridge across the Tanai Hka River in Myanmar, then known as Burma.

Matzen Immobilien's $63-million project will add five tapering floors to create vegetation-covered cultural and sports spaces atop the former bunker.