Camp Leach

In addition, there was a companion facility called Camp Leach. This facility abutted the AUES and trained 100,000 engineers during World War I in offensive and defensive gas and flame warfare and other engineering applications. Photos show the troops constructing makeshift mortars, emplacing howitzers, and firing rifles. 

There are four major historic maps that cover the buildings at the AUES, the 1918 Range and Reservation Map and several maps of Camp Leach. Two Camp Leach maps indicate that portions of Camp Leach (two parcels) were included as part of Camp Leach (given letter designations) but not leased. A separate memorandum indicates that Camp Leach did not know who owned one of the parcels. Another historical Camp Leach document (by Gen. Black) indicates that they used land that was not leased. These references are significant in terms of the FUDS boundary. 

One of the side projects of the AUES involved the development of searchlights. Numerous documents indicate that after the AUES was shut down, this project continued under the name Tenleytown Station. The lease reference is provided. The land. Lots 1680 and 1681, were leased by Mary E. Helen, Josephine Patton, and Edith Patton Corbin. Because searchlights are listed on the Camp Leach map, it is believed that this is the area of the station. This was a large project with nearly 100 men. 

Several documents refer to the use of the railroad and the spur to ship supplies to Camp Leach and the AUES. One historic document lists the... 

Selected Documentation on Poison Gas Production at the American University Experiment Station and Range Activities at Camp Leach, DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, 1997. 

Throughout the summer of 1917 contractors worked at the university, converting rooms into offices and laboratories. Temporary buildings, large and small, were erected to serve as workshops and as houses for workers and as shelters for animals. The War Department converted a section of the grounds into Camp Leach, where officers and enlisted men could learn the technique of chemical warfare. 

Camp Leach, the adjacent facility, trained an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 gas and flame engineers in the application of poison gas, smoke and flame, basic small arms training, engineering techniques, and defensive measures. This training included the firing of mortars and howitzers with gas shells. These projectiles sometimes fail to detonate on impact, resulting in UXO or duds, which are extremely dangerous. 

Several documents refer to the use of the railroad and the spur to ship supplies to Camp Leach and the AUES. One historic document lists the daily tons of supplies (50 for AUES), which clearly calls for significant loading and storage capability. A 1906 and a 1940 map of railroad spur lines on this leased parcel exist one map calls it a chemical siding. 

The two main alteration assemblages of the DBL camp (neutral and aluminous) are characterized mostly by gains in MnO and losses in Na20, respectively, and by intense leaching of most oxides. 

Whether emotions are universal and invariant, cross-cuRurally and transhistorically, is a difficult question.53 There is a camp of univer-salists and a camp of particularists, extreme forms of which are represented by Edmund Leach and Clifford Geertz respectively.54 My inclination is to believe that proto-emotions are universal. TTiey can... 

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