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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