US Troops building Corduroy Road, New Georgia

US Troops building Corduroy Road, New Georgia
Here we see US engineers building a corduroy road through the jungle on New Georgia, to help move heavy supplies. This involved placing long timbers at ninety degrees to the direction of the road, and sometimes edging the road with heavy timbers acting to help hold the road together.
Dark Waters, Starry Skies – The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March-October 1943, Jeffrey R. Cox. Looks at the fighting in the Solomons from the tail end of the Guadalcanal campaign to the end of the invasion of New George, along with the connected fighting on New Guinea and the naval and air campaigns associated with those campaigns. This was a period when the naval war was finally balanced, with the Americans in control in daylight and the Japanese at night, with both sides able to inflict heavy blows on the other, but against a background of growing American power and a series of Japanese setbacks (Read Full Review)
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How to cite this article: Rickard, J (19 August 2026), US Troops building Corduroy Road, New Georgia , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_building_corduroy_road_new_georgia.html

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