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[b:53d35d3107]"One Man Task Force"[/b:53d35d3107]

TRACTOR BULLDOZERS mount no guns, are not even armored. Yet men who put service aboce self are taking them deep into the danger zones to clear the path [i:53d35d3107]ahead [/i:53d35d3107]of the guns. Many a Mother's son is living tonight because a bulldozer driver did not falter in the performance of his mission.

If you could sit at the elbow of a 'dozer operator when he opens the throttle of his crawling powerhouse, you would see first-hand how it's done. How, for instance, Seabees in the Alutians built a bobomber airfield by pushing a mountain into the sea. How they built a runway in the Solomons despite touching off a buried 100lb. Jap bomb that twisted one corner of the rugged bulldozer blade but failed to stop the tractor.

In the thick of one attack, there were six casualties in succession at the controls of a single tractor, yet the seventh man took over, determined to keep it rolling. Courage like that is not a thing which can be described.

We of Allis-Chalmers are proud of these men who operate the tractors we build. Our hats are off to Uncle Sam's one-man task force, the bulldozer driver. And our sleeves are rolled up in a sincere effort to live up to his example.

My Dad bought a used Allis-Chalmers HD-5 when I was just out of high school. I helped him with it to clear several
acres of brush and small timber. It was a tough machine.

Butch

I have a friend who was assigned to an engineer company so he thought he was safe from combat. THEN he got sent to Vietnam. The old hands told him to always keep his blade high. It didn't take long when
constructing the first fire base for him to figure that out. Fortunately he made his tour.

My brother worked in Ft Mcmurray Alberta with a Canadian who volunteered for Vietnam, he was killed there, they had a flypast for him when they brought him back. Dan-Alberta

I was in the combat engineers in Vietnam, they said dont worry if you hit a mine with a dozer, it will probably just blow a track off!

The unit I was in had D7 dozers and Allis Chalmers loaders!

Unfortunately, Allis Chalmers is gone. I worked in the
engineering office in 1965-66.
Kursk