Survey of Route for Nicaraguan Canal, 1929-1930
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Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) (Most Recent) Series : Historical Films, compiled ca. 1914 - ca. 1936 Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 Production Date: 1936 Other Title(s): Historical Film, No. 1193 Sound Type: Silent Scope & Content: Army engineers board the transport Chateau Thierry in New York City. The transport Kenowis is unloaded at Corinto, Nicaragua. Majors Sultan and Gross examine maps. The freighter Victoria is loaded at Granada. A survey party sails up the San Juan River in a small boat, makes camp, clears underbrush with machetes, erects mess and first-aid tents, unloads boats, passes abandoned dredges, reconnoiter in the jungle, operates diamond drills at Machuca Dam, and crosses sand bars in the river in native canoes. Lt. Col. Sultan is decorated at Fort Humphries, Va. Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: [email protected] National Archives Identifier: 24698 Local Identifier: 111-H-1193 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24698
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