Owain J. Hughes scrapbook, 1938-1943.

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Owain J. Hughes scrapbook, 1938-1943.

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Scrapbook compiled by Lt. Col. Owain J. Hughes, Army Corps of Engineers, who participated in the construction of the Alaska-Canada Highway in 1942. Included are 39 photographs of Hughes in the Army (1938-1943) and in Alaska during the project, a booklet about the Alaska Highway, newspaper articles and several copies of the Alcan Dispatch (1942), correspondence from Hughes to his daughters, ephemera from the Alcan dedication ceremony, and 3 maps. Also included are three engineering blueprints of a device for the construction of bridges (1884, 1901) designed for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, by Hughes' father, Owain Thomas Hughes, a carpenter from Watertown (Wis.).

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Hughes, Owain J.

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Hughs, Owain Thomas.

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