Army’s 1919 cross-country trip

Washington, D.C., to San Francisco.

A turned-over truck around 3:30. Lots of civilians standing around. Some help soldiers righting the truck.

Mud at 5:10. Slipping and sliding.

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJKxkfF1D8

 Brevet Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the convoy. Forty-seven years later, President Eisenhower signed the National Interstate and Defense Highway Act. Interstate highways were to be used for rapid movement of soldiers, vehicles and equipment. The highways were constructed to serve as landing strips for fully-loaded military transports.

That convoy would have been a good road trip for a historian. When my time machine is completed...