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 19 Section XVI i’