Report: Construction history of all work in connection with San Juan central area

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Report: Construction history of all work in connection with San Juan central area

• circa 1943 (Vervaardig)

"A thorough narrative documentation of the builders' (apparently a conglomeration of construction companies from Baltimore and Texas) work on many different defense installations in Puerto Rico leading up to and in the first years of World War II. While rich in detail of each project, Driver manages to preserve some chatty commentary of the circumstances of each project. He covers 20 different defense projects, all but three in Puerto Rico (the others in the Virgin Islands and St. Lucia and Antigua in the British West Indies). The projects are pretty much exclusively military, or in support of military bases, and include the U.S. Naval Air Station near San Juan, a submarine detector finder station at Morro Castle, a radio station, 10th Naval District Headquarters Facilities, a U.S. Navy dry dock, a U.S. Army Engineering Range, fixed obstructions, a machine gun range, fuel oil and ordinance storage facilities, and much more. The reports provide a narrative of the construction, circumstances affecting construction, details of various aspects of each project, a breakdown of the laborers on each project by nationality, costs, labor conditions, etc. Possibly the only surviving copy of this extensive report." –Description from Between the Covers Rare Books