Adjutant @neral for the Oahu Echelon. His constant devotion to dand hard work in that position was atstandhg*
He was assisted by CWO
Allen Freeman and five (~) enlisted men who jotied the section as the
volume of work increased there.
22. During November a turn over in officer personnel necessitated
the securing of replaceme.l+s
for tie Air ~d Amy
officer repreaenti”tives
in the Adjutant GeneraIts Section. There was, as can be expected, a time
lag
in obtaining these replacementsWith
Air Force replacement for llajor~vond
created some problems. The
E. Hickman becane ill after only
two days duty and was hospitalized and in turn 1st Lieutenant Francis L.
Zinkand, USAF, was received in his place. Major Dwight T. Hamersley
reported on 25 November as replacement for kjor Arthur Raney. Early
in December one (1) Officer Courier, Captain Cowan S. Hill, was placed on
tempora~ duty with this office to transmit documents classified Top
tSecretand those contaimhg Restricted Data, between Washington and Oahu
and the Forward Area. In December it became necessaryto send two (2)
enlisted men forward to Fort Shafter to assist Lieutenant Temple there.
In Wnua~Major
Hamersley and T/3 Kelly moved to Oahu, and the remainder
of the section moved forward as individ~s,
GarlenR. B~ant, reporttig to Oahu, U
with Lieutenant Colonel
Feb_,the
day prior to the
opening of the Headquarters at Fort Shafter and the establishmentof
Headquarters Joint Task Force Seven (Rear), in the Pentagon, Lieutenant
Colonel John F. Taylor, AGD, had reported on 22 Decesmer and he functioned
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