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Show j GI Railroaders Follow Troops I Unsung, but nevertheless of vital importance, are the army railroad men, helping supply the advancing U. S. forces on world fronts. "These troops are scattered all over the world," said Brig. Gen. A. F. Mclntyre, chief of the army rail division. "They are in New Guinea, Alaska, New Caledonia, England, France, Italy, Iran and India. They also supported the invasion in Africa where the Moroccan railways had been barely able to lupport the . i domestic economy of the country." ' Trained troops of the Military Railway service are all in service overseas. General Mclntyre said. In addition to operating and shop battalions, bat-talions, he explained, miscellaneous units, such as mobile workshops, hospital - train maintenance crews, base depot companies, and transportation trans-portation companies, total 105 Military Mili-tary Railway service units containing contain-ing about 2,000 officers and 42,000 enlisted en-listed men. |