Building temporary roadways is explained showing several methods constructed from locally available resources such as wood (timber), soil, and gravel on difficult terrain such as swamps, deserts, and forests.
I read a report written by a German soldier during the Africa campaign who was amazed at how a road over 20 miles long appeared within a four day period. He was shocked at the American Military engineers tenacity and hard work.
Well this is my main account and as you can see I am a creator myself (both physically and digitally). That's why I don't like to see content "sharers" (since they create nothing) such as this guy getting such praise and recognition for hitting upload on a video he found on some war time footage archive site or something. Also sorry for the foul language but I'm Irish and we like to joke rough ;D
Toasted Fan Art 2 months ago, I been to Dublin, The Pubs were full of foul language, but they were indeed infused with so much love, you never find it in America.
I learned this when just playing on a construction site and in the woods, where I saw dead trees. I think every child should grow up near a construction site or forest just to learn sawing, nailing and carrying wood. I am happy I did not grow up in a large city. I think it helped me develop skills others in my generation don't have.
OpenGL4ever to some level that's true, but the teamwork is not physically together with people it's sitting in front of individual computers. It doesn't include the physical labor and working side-by-side in unison to accomplish a goal. Also, a lot of work places are set up where people don't work together, they work against each other. It becomes a backstabbing, let's leave our manners and Common Sense at the door in order to get ahead type of atmosphere. I work in a place where they have focused the attention back on teamwork. Goals are set as a team not so much as individuals. It has made such a difference. For the better.
Sure hope this site has other subjects besides war! Yes I subscribed because it says Documentary and I love documentaries. You guys made good interesting comments, thanks!🙏
When i see modern people spitting on our forefathers, it makes me sick. These were 18 yr old kids out there fighting to keep this country safe, they went thru hell and came back home and built the greatest country on earth.
building the road today is about the same... except you have to stop every five minutes and instagram it.... then you go home and make a youtube video of your DIY, post it on facebook and hope that everyone likes it...
K Kampy no worries, back then especially in this winter, the people who lived there lost them selves in the mud fields. (sorry for bad "ardennoise" english)
YA! Right! if they really did that on WW2! the army spend $ to do this documentary but they realist that! on paper it's always nice but in the field! It's totally different!
Joe Chang What do you mean? The explosion is less than 100 yards away, the sound and the light will arrive at virtually the same time, for the human ear that is..
if it is an artillery shell (supersonic), then you do not hear it coming before it actually arrives. I did not consider if it was bomb (possibly subsonic), bombs might have an arming fuse, but I don't think you can hear it far away. Stuka dive bombers have a Jericho trumpet for dramatic effect
I thought you were talking about the explosion itself. But anyhow, it looks more like a mortar impact to me, which are not supersonic. And to my understanding you definitely hear artillery shells flying over as well, even before the impacts. It depends on the shell's trajectory and your position.
per Laurens, yes it does seem to be a mortar shell, which is mostly what infantry will be encountering. I normally think in terms of naval artillery which you will not hear before impact, but perhaps the AP fuse may have a delayed detonation. For a supersonic artillery shell passing overhead, what your hear is from earlier in the trajectory, depending on parameters.
The only one that makes sense unless these are going to be used continously for potentially months is the last one. If its just a small convey that needs to get past of maybe 50 trucks they could drive over the grass fields easily at a moderate rate and its kind of a waste of time making the road. The only one that makes sense is the last one where its sinking mud.
thats kinda the issue. 50 trucks that weigh multple tonnes will rut anything but rock in minutes. and even then theres no guarentee that there wont be just one convoy needed. as the old axiom says. Better save than sorry.
Corduroy roads are still build in some ocasions in Canada by the wood cutting industry. The consept is still the same, the scale is only different... (the model with logs on the bottom and gravel on top)
Не стоит американцам ссорить людей разных национальностей, а потом якобы приходить на помощь. Уже это не проходит, даже дети видят кто все это 🇺🇸 планирует и грязно проводит. Израиль и Палестина это 🇺🇸сделали.
i guarantee the engineers doing the job had NOTHING to do with this film. there is no way an engineer would tie 10 small trees together THEN carry it 30 yards.
David Barbero, Hi David, I agree. Don't you wish there was nothing to be able to go to war with? I do! No explosives, no bombs, no chemicals, no rockets anywhere on planet Earth. Fantasy dreaming. But hey, a person can dream of peace can't we?! It takes a mountaneous amount of growth to be wise. I guess that's why wisdom is so precious, The Prize after The Work. God bless you David Barbero. And thanks for your comment, it stimulates a lot of thoughtful reflection. Be safe.🙋🌈🙏
War sounds like a waste until your staring at a barrel of a gun carried by a man who thought it wasn't a waste. You find the woman you knew and loved are now being raped and passed around the guards. You now find yourself digging a big pit that is now to be a mass grave for you and the other men with you because they no longer want to bear the cost of feeding you. This is unlikely to happen now a days because someone either in your country or someone in a other country decided war wasn't a waste. War was to protect something/someone they loved...unknowingly protecting your right to be born and type the comment you typed. Be thankful to those known/unknown strangers that you can practice whatever you do in this world today.