"BALDY DAN" IN FRANCE 



BY LIEUT. SHELBY M. SAUNDERS 



COMPANY E, SIXTH BATTALION, TWENTIETH ENGINEERS (FOREST) 



WHEN pine was "King" in Michigan a familiar 

 figure in the camps north of the Saginaw Bay 

 country was "Baldy Dan" McDonald. He had 

 the unique reputation of being the best lumberjack in 

 that section of the state. There was nothing that he 

 could not do in the woods. When it came to sawing 

 "Baldy" could outwear a dozen ordinary men, not be- 

 cause he "rode" the saw, but simply because he was a 

 wizard at his work. He could chop, swamp, top load, 

 deck load and handle a peavy, and if there was anything 

 in the woods he could not do it was simply because no 

 one had ever heard tell of it before. 



of the glory that is due them. When men learn what 

 has been achieved by the Forestry Regiments they will 

 ponder and remember, and they will give to these war- 

 riors of the forest all of the credit that is due them in 

 helping to free the world of Prussianism. 



Organized for the purpose of supplying the American 

 Army in France with its various needs of forest products, 

 the task in spite of being almost superhuman in the face 

 of so many difficulties, is being accomplished with a 

 smoothness that is astonishing. While it is true that 

 members of the Forestry regiments do not have to share 

 the dangers that do members of fighting units, yet they 



SOME OF OUR LUMBER BOYS IN FRANCE 



Organized for the purpose of supplying our army in France with the necessary forest products, our two Forestry Regiments are acquiting them- 

 selves with great credit and these are some of the boys who are helping to make them famous. 



"Baldy Dan" like the mighty pine of Michigan has 

 gone, but men of his calibre have come to take his place. 

 It is a mighty odd statement to make, but one that is 

 true and one that will be vouched for by every man who 

 is in a position to know and that is, that the best loggers, 

 the best woodsmen, the best sawmill men that America 

 can produce are now in France. They are members of 

 the Tenth and Twentieth Engineers, Forestry Regiments, 

 which are making a big name for themselves in France 

 and America and they will go down in history as having 

 played a large part in the World War. 



The Forestry Regiments are just coming in for some 



are ready at any time to take their places in the front line 

 trenches, if the need be. 



Before anything could be done by America in the war, 

 it was necessary to have lumber. There was need for it 

 everywhere. Docks had to be built, railroads had to 

 be constructed, hospitals, barracks and warehouses, and 

 the many other things that an army needs had to be 

 erected. 



As soon as the Forestry Units arrived in France, they 

 went to work. Shortly after production started and the 

 flow of lumber from the mills began. As rapidly as pos- 

 sible additional battalions of Forestry troops were dis- 



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