A view of a house in Menzel Bagh, Morrison-Knudsen Company's Afghanistan headquarters. The American engineers and contractors working in Afghanistan were assigned to either a single family house (if they had a family with them) or to barrack style...
Engineers; Engineering & construction; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
A reprint of the cover of the magazine "Engineering News-Record", featuring Lyman Wilbur. In 1966, he was awarded Construction's Man of the Year title by the magazine for his work in Vietnam during the war.
Three school aged boys in a scene Lyman Wilbur called "Kabul Lumber yard." One difficulty Morrison-Knudsen engineers faced in countries like Afghanistan was the lack of lumber for construction projects. Two solutions to this problem were to limit...