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maintain the post at Fort Worden with the remaining units of the Brigade
not committed for the operation, it would be necessary to recall approxi-
‘mately one hundred (100) Brigade personnel from the various Service
Schools throughout the country.
This request was submitted to army
Ground Forces and permission was grantedonthe strengthethat. Operation
"Sandstone" was of a high priority.
During this meeting in Washington,
D. C., General qm was informed that’-aProvisional Battalion, to be
part of TG 7.2, was being organized in Hawaii.
this battalion was:
General organization of
Battalion Headquarters, 18th Engineer Construction
Company and several supply, housekeeping and administrative cells.
Complete lists of units and cells of this battalion, as planned at this
time, are attached and marked Appendix "B",
as outlined by Colonel
D. H. Talley in Washington, D. C., the Provisional Battalion would
maintain the shore-based units, with the 18th Engineer Construction
Company completely rehabilitating Eniwetok Island, thus relieving the
532d Engineer Boat & Shore Regiment from any other functions except the
priority construction on Engebi, Aomon, Biijiri, Runit and Parry
Islands.
This Provisional Battalion was due to arrive at Eniwetok
Atoll the early part of December 1947.
The 2d ESB was given a ten-
tative port call of 10 December 1947.
It was decided at the Washington Conference that the equipment
would be shipped through the Seattle Port of Embarkation and the .-
personnel thru the NABD Port Hueneme, Caljfornia. . :
General @@@M and his staff were instructed?that » due. to. the "Top
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