ia PRIVACYACTMAVERIAL REMOVED Major WMMB,met and conferred with General Qi staff discussing preliminary plans for the movement of the 2d ESB to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands. Colonel] SMBs Joint Task Force Engineer, outlined the project and assigned the construction missions of the 2d ESB in this operation. Se PrelisMi} equipment lists were made up which included 1/Oyds equipment of the Brigade and, in addition, special equipment peculiar to this project to be procured by the vegigas supply agencies. This list-<@re@@iipasaitiiad to be coordinated with the equigneniy, being talbiiMSy the 18th Ingineer Construction Company, part of Task Group 7.2, which would depart from Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, about 15 November 1947. The final list of equipment brought by tige.gd ESB is attache@fild marked Appendix "A". Permission was@@BRWetgnclude on the list of equipment DUKW's, for passage over shallow reefs.q@&MaM addea to the list of equipment to be shipped were two L- planes of 2d ESB Liaison Air Section, for rapid inter-island transportation and emergency evacuation of injured or sick on islands ten to twenty miles distant from the hospital to be set up at Eniwetok. General @@MMA also requested a running small boat pool for inter@@#ithd transportation of peisonnel and equipment. Working from present strength figures of the 2d ESB at that time, General QM and staff cam to the conclusion that in order to obtain five-hundredMAA?Menty (S20¥UGKisted Men for the mission, and still Section Vi-a PRIVACY CialTEAL REMUVED 'a 3

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