contained receiving and storage areas, locker and toilet rooms, the scullery, and initial preparation facilities. Succeeding operations were arranged in sequence, with the final cooking being performed at the opposite end of the kitchen, nearest the dining rooms. Appendages were affixed to the dining rooms for dishwashing, so that the table china, glassware, and flatware could be kept in the dining area and did not pass through the kitchen or interfere with the operation of the food preparation area, Bakery facilities were placed in a separate building adjacent to and linked with the mess hall kitchen by a covered walk. This arrangement kept the handling and rehandling of finished bakery products to a minimum. For the bakery, the use of a double width building was again advantageous in conveniently and economically arranging the required pieces of rather large equipment, especially the proofing cabinets and ovens, Storage, locker, and toilet rooms were relegated to one end of the bakery. The remainder of the building was divided into two prep- aration areas running parallel to each other, one for pastries, doughnuts, and specialties, and the other for bread. Baking was done at the ends of these areas nearest the passage to the mess hall. The reefer and commissary buildings completed the messing installations. The floor of each of these buildings was raised to 4 feet or truck bed height and was extended 6 feet out from the building along one side as a loading platform. Otherwise, the commissary was a stand- ard aluminum structure, but the reefer building, which contained ice making machines and prefabricated refrigerators with removable compressor units, had typical sliding door tracks added to the plate of its rear wall to give adequate bracing to the building when certain columns and wall panels were removed to allow enough clearance for pulling out the compressor units for occasional repair or replacement. In the central part of the housing area, near the messing facilities, were the laundry and its boiler house, the fire station, post office, post exchange, dispensary and two ward buildings, and the Group Headquarters Building. These were all aluminum buildings with no structural peculiarities except that the Group Headquarters Building had appended a vault and a crypto room, both of reinforced concrete. The power and water distillation plant, located between but some- what isolated from the living area and the airport installations, was built of aluminum buildings connected in parallel and set on 6-foot concrete walls, giving a 14-foot plate line, an adequate height to clear the equipment, which was arranged in two rows running lengthwise with the structure. One row contained engines and electrical cubicals; the other, evaporators and distillation units. The standard buildings were spaced 4 feet apart, instead of 24 feet apart as in most other buildings, to give ample piping space and a corridor down the center of the building. The large B-50 hangar on the north side of the runway was a steel building procured by the Air Force and erected by Task Group 3.2. 5-116