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OFFICERS OF THE 



SPRUCE REGIMENT, AVIATION SECTION OF THE SIGNAL CORPS 



the nation's praise they serve without being able to 

 share in the thrilling and spectacular feats of the aviator. 

 These men are assigned to camp and sawmills in units, 

 under the charge of army officers. Their food, hous- 

 ing and treatment is supervised. They have all the 

 advantages of soldiers. Their pay runs from $4 to $8 a 

 day, according to the work they are capable of perform- 

 ing. But for this they work hard. The job of a North- 



western lumberjack is no sinecure, nor is it without dan- 

 ger. And it is skilled labor. As an ordinary soldier is 

 trained in the intricacies of modern warfare, the soldier 

 logger must fit with precision his place in the highly 

 specialized system of lumbering in the Pacific North- 

 west, which has developed to be really an engineering 

 science. The immense size of the trees and the roughness 

 of the country require the use of machinery in almost 



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ONE OF THE LOGGING CAMPS OF THE SPRUCE DIVISION AT GRAY'S HARBOR, WASHINGTON 



