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Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'battle axe'.
http://cedarriverforge.com/History/Clary-The biggest regimen in the army.pdf
Called to supply the troops on the Western Front in France during WWI.
"In October 1918 the 10th and 20th Engineers (Forestry); the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Engineers (Highway); and seven engineers service battalions were combined into the largest regiment in the American army, the 20th Engineers (Forestry), under Woodruff's command. In all, this giant regiment included the forty-nine engineers companies, twenty-eight engineers service companies, and fourteen battalion headquarters already in France, and recruitment began (but was never completed) in the United States for an additional ninety-six companies and fifteen battalion headquarters to be dispatched to France posthaste.
When the German army collapsed in November, Woodruff's regiment numbered over 20,000 officers and men, to which had been added since July over 10,000 quartermaster service troops detailed for firewood production. The 20th, as one observer noted, was "not a regiment, except in name, but a great manufacturing establishment." Its "main items of plant" included 282 sawmills, 1,850 logging wagons, 12,500 horses, 128 power tractors, 2,300 motor trucks and trailers, 400 miles of railroad track, 2,070 railroad logging cars, and 85 locomotives."
http://cedarriverforge.com/History/Clary-The biggest regimen in the army.pdf
Called to supply the troops on the Western Front in France during WWI.
"In October 1918 the 10th and 20th Engineers (Forestry); the 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Engineers (Highway); and seven engineers service battalions were combined into the largest regiment in the American army, the 20th Engineers (Forestry), under Woodruff's command. In all, this giant regiment included the forty-nine engineers companies, twenty-eight engineers service companies, and fourteen battalion headquarters already in France, and recruitment began (but was never completed) in the United States for an additional ninety-six companies and fifteen battalion headquarters to be dispatched to France posthaste.
When the German army collapsed in November, Woodruff's regiment numbered over 20,000 officers and men, to which had been added since July over 10,000 quartermaster service troops detailed for firewood production. The 20th, as one observer noted, was "not a regiment, except in name, but a great manufacturing establishment." Its "main items of plant" included 282 sawmills, 1,850 logging wagons, 12,500 horses, 128 power tractors, 2,300 motor trucks and trailers, 400 miles of railroad track, 2,070 railroad logging cars, and 85 locomotives."
