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2 unusual facts about Corps of Engineers


Biloxi Wade-Ins

Before the beaches were desegregated homeowners claimed the beaches as private property, and despite the fact the beaches were built by the Army Corps of Engineers using taxpayer funds, African Americans were restricted to designated areas of the beachfront.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Berry and Meatyard's book was a major contribution to saving the gorge from destruction by a proposed Army Corps of Engineers dam.


Cal Holman

He then served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Carl Garner

His second wife, Ima Jean "Jean" Reedy, also worked for the Corps of Engineers.

During Carl Garner's over 57 years of public service working for the Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, he headed preparations for the dedication of Greers Ferry Dam by President John F. Kennedy and introduced innumerable families to the outdoors.

F. Burrall Hoffman

During World War I, Hoffman served as Captain with the Corps of Engineers and later directed camouflage operations with the Second Corps, A.E.F. During World War II, Hoffman served overseas as a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy.

General Survey Act

The president assigned responsibility for the surveys to the Corps of Engineers (USACE).

George Dern

The army's Corps of Engineers also began several important public works

Hobbs Army Airfield

Other military representatives soon followed, including those of the Army Corps of Engineers who would be involved in construction.

J. George Stewart

He was special engineer to the lands division of the United States Department of Justice and Corps of Engineers in 1952/1953, and was a civil engineer in Hollywood, Florida in 1954.

Lee Tafanelli

Tafanelli joined the Kansas Army National Guard in 1980 and receiving his commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers through Army ROTC at Pittsburg State University in 1982.

Percy Priest

J. Percy Priest Dam, a United States Army Corps of Engineers hydroelectric and flood control structure just east of Nashville on the Stones River (and easily visible from Interstate 40) is named in his honor, as is Percy Priest Lake (created by the dam) and an elementary school in Forest Hills, a suburb of Nashville.

Shinnecock Inlet

West Hampton Dunes was incorporated in 1993 specifically to have legal standing in the skirmishes with Corps of Engineers regarding the practice.

The Flats

Early settlers included Lorenzo Carter, whose land holdings included much of what makes up today's East Bank entertainment district, including Whiskey Island, which was created when the mouth of the river was straightened by the Corps of Engineers.

White Sands Missile Range

1944, February: Major General Gladeon M Barnes, chief of the Technical Division of the Office of Chief of Ordnance in Washington, sent teams of the War Department and the Ordnance Department of the Corps of Engineers to look for a US site for missile research.

Wilfrid Worland

During World War II, he served in the Corps of Engineers, receiving a Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.

William T. Piper

Piper served in the Spanish-American War and World War I, in the latter as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.


see also

Frederick Clarke

Frederick J. Clarke (1915–2002), civil and military engineer with the United States Army Corps of Engineers

George Wackenhut

He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and witnessed the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Inflatable boat

In 1848 General George Cullum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.

Juan Bertoli Calderoni

Bertoli Calderoni came to Puerto Rico from Bastia, Corsica, in 1845, contracted by the Spanish Military Corps of Engineers to work at La Fortaleza and other Spanish military installations in San Juan.

Kanaskat, Washington

This lasted until 1959, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were forced to build the Northern Pacific yet another station directly northwest of its postwar structure (due to the line change caused by the Corps of Engineer's Howard A. Hanson Dam at Eagle Gorge).

Louis Lebègue Duportail

Promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Royal Corps of Engineers, Duportail was secretly sent to America in March 1777 to serve in Washington's Continental Army under an agreement between Benjamin Franklin and the government of King Louis XVI of France.

Oologah, Oklahoma

In 1963, the Army Corps of Engineers completed the fist phase of Oologah Lake.

Sheyenne River

US Army Corps of Engineers officials stated that Lisbon was forced to hire contractors from Willmar, Minnesota, some five hours away, due to the lack of availability of local equipment.

SORBA

Currently SORBA Woodstock has relationships with local land managers such as the City of Woodstock, City of Canton, Cherokee Recreation and Parks Authority, Department of Natural Resources, Boy Scouts of America, Cherokee County Water Authority, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Allatoona.

Thomas Hyde Page

Page went with the corps of engineers to North America and distinguished himself in service to General Pigott at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775, where he was severely wounded.

Tremont Street

Sir Thomas Hyde Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, shows Beacon Hill, Mount Whoredom, and another unnamed hill all just above Beacon Street.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works controversies

The Flood Control Act of 1965 (FCA 1965), enacted after Hurricane Betsy flooded large sections of New Orleans, mandated the US Army Corps of Engineers as the Federal agency responsible for levee design and construction.

Zafra de Záncara

Fernando Casado de Torres e Irala (1754–1829): squadron leader and general commander of the Corps of Engineers of the Royal Spanish Navy.