The Corps of Engineers: Construction in the United States

United States Army in World War II. The Technical Services.In World War II the Corps of Engineers superintended the largest construction program in the nations history, providing the home base for a United States Army that grew to more than eight million men and women. The Corps-related construction work included development of the facilities for making atomic bombs. In telling the story of these herculean efforts the authors set unprecedented standards: no detailed and scholarly history on the subject of construction has ever before been undertaken in this country.JAMES L. COLLINS, JR., Brigadier General, USA, Chief of Military History