USS WHIDBEY (AG 141), Medical Survey Ship
By July 1948, the WHIDBEYhadbeen transformedinto a floating
clinic and laboratory, equipped with medical and dental examining
facilities including a photofluorographic unit, and staffed with four
medical, dental, and health officers and nine enlisted x-ray, laboratory,
and clerical technicians. Four officers and twentyenlisted men formed
the ship’s company. The WHIDBEYsailed from Pear Harbor on
July 22 and on August 1, 1948 arrived in the Marshalls to begin the
survey of the tslands.
Administrative control of the vessel was first assigned Commander
Service Division 51 (ComServDiv 51), the Trust Territory logistic
force, later assumed by ComServPac on March 1, 1950 while undergoing overhaul at Pearl Harbor and working in the Eastern Marshalls,
and finally returned to ComServDiv 51 in August 16, 1950 when it
arrived at Truk. Operational control was the responsibility of ComMarianas until early in 1g50, when it passed temporarily to ComServ-
Pac and then, on August 12, 1950, to ComServDiv 51."
Personnel
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