8.
For inter-island transportation of equipment and supplies,
a daily scheduled LCT and LCM service was established and operated
by the Navel Task Group.
Frequent scheduled LCI service carried
personnel, light cargo, and mail, with stops at every occupied
island.
Individual transportation was furnished by liaison air-
craft operated by the Air Task Group, for which landing strips
were built on Aomon, Runit, Aniyasnii, and Parry Islands.
This
latter service repaid many times the labor and effort spent in
establishing it and contributed greatly to the speed of operations. .
In the 60-day period of greatest activity, 13 liaison airplanes
(L-5's and L-4's) carried more than 5,000 passengers.
Ina single
peak day this squadron carried 175 passengers and 3,000 lbs. of
freight.
DUKW's supplemented landing craft for inter-island short
hall work.
9.
Since construction plans were well completed before embarka-
tion from the mainland, construction materials were packed and marked
for the island upon which they were destined to be used, and unloaded
at the site.
Only the general unallocated stocks and surpluses were
unloaded in the general depot at Eniwetok.
This saved much inter-
island transportation, but necessitated a careful system of record
keeping to keep track of location of the various items.
10.
Once the framework of transportation and signal commnica-
tions were set up, construction work proceeded with great speed.
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