Parachute section of the students’ text for The Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942. The handout consists of scanned images SPC # 007-0648 v.1-21.1 through SPC # 007-0648 v.1-21.10.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Removal of one of the towers used to support the conveyor belt which delivered aggregate to the west side mix plant. The foundation level of Grand Coulee Dam is complete, and the river flows through diversion slots in the dam.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Shows construction method for the lower portion of the dam. Alternating blocks were constructed. The Columbia River was forced through slots by placement of temporary gates on the upstream side of the dam.
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...