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tion, I ate a huge breakfast of pancakes. I got rather 

 panicky when I was kept waiting for the test and I 

 imagined that I was sweating off most of the pancake 

 weight. However, I passed the test and proceeded to 

 Washington, where I got my commission and along with 

 a very close college friend, Francis Kiefer, and Robert 

 Stuart, who later became Chief of the Forest Service, 

 went to France in September, 1917, as Casual Officers 

 not attached to the Tenth Engineers. 



We were first headquartered in Paris, then moved to 

 Tours, headquarters of the Service of Supply (S.O.S.)- 

 My job, under Lt. Colonel Robert Johnson, a lumberman 

 from Northern California, was to handle orders for 

 lumber and other forest products coming in from army 

 contingents. These orders rapidly increased in volume 

 as the American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.) grew in 

 size and our forestry engineers did remarkable work 

 in getting under way. 



This increase in demand resulted in a second forestry 

 regiment, the Twentieth Engineers, being sent to France 

 and merged with the Tenth, under Colonel Mitchell, 

 Colonel Woodruff being promoted to Brigadier General 

 with overall command of the merger regiments. 



