tided on the island. This a~ply was replenishedat regular intermls
by means of an MM
fuel boat from Miwetok.
The 18th Engineer ConstructionCoqsny consisted of 181 officers
and man, Of whoIu 135 were engaged in construction. I!kceptfor the fact
that an additional six carp~ters would have facilitatedholdi~ constmction schedulesand, pr~ps
could have bettered the completion
dates by a few days, the personnel.contained in the compmy was well
distributedas to occupationalspecialties. Good leadership by the
officers of this com~y
of a really mc~lent
together with the superior attention to duty
group
of non-comssioned
officers in ~ny ways
offset the fact that this company lacked scmewhat in experience
in
this ~rticular type of construction. With regard to the latxer, tb
Task Force &@neer
and his staff provided assistance in planning and
supervisingthe actual constmction.
Because of the scattered locationa of buildings, blast footings,
alaba, and aprona to be built of concrete, it ia believed that nmterial
saving in time would hnve resulted from the use of tranait-mixconcrete
trucks, hauling frwm a central batch plant. However, this particular
type of equipmentwaa not available cm the atoll. Other than this, the
construction equlpnmt was well adlected as to number, type, and conditiom
Generally all items of constructionwere canpleted on or before
the datea set forth in a completion schedule which had bean prepared
by the Joint Tack Force ~ineer
etart
and accepted by the Am
prior to the
of construction. The H!(-PKCompany started actual steel erection
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