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rehabilitation and utilities personnel to prepare and have ready
for use, the power and water distillation units when the troops
debarked.
When the main body of the 1220th arrived on the 29th
of November, Ma jorSe directed a gradual debarkation ashore
where a CP was established, calling for units when their messes
and areas were completed and ready for the troops.
Of all the
inconveniences experienced, the lack of telephones for the first
week was the worst, having to maintain contact by means of runners.
d4mong the initial personnel to arrive by air with Major
Wing, wes Lt (jc «USN, OIC of. the Navy utilities
team with sixteen (16) Navy utilities personnel arrived by air.
This team made an attempt to rehabilitate or salvage some of the
existing unserviceable power and water distillation units on
Eniwetok , which were rusted beyond recovery.
five reefer units were, however, reconditioned.
Ten out of twenty
The rapid deterio-
‘ration of the existing installations exposed to the salt spray
and hot sun dimmed any hopes that an appreciable amount of this
equipment might be placed in operation before the main body of
troops arrived.
;
Ensi gees, CEC, USN, who had been part of the
previous Navy garrison and consented to remain with the Utilities
Team, accompanied: Major MMMM and acted in the capacity of guide..
Ensign SD. had completed an eleven month tour of duty as Public
Works Officer on the Staff of the Island Commanden, Eniwetok, prior
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