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the situation, to clean and repair warehouses, and to set up property
accounts.
Due to the urgenoy of the work, each unit on the atoll took what
supplies and equipment it required from the beach dumps, further compli-~
cating the organization of an accounting system.
On December 26th, Major
QUT was appointed Director of Supply, along with the following staff
persome]:
Capt Was
Asst 5-4
cCwo
M/Sgt Qa
Asst S-4
S/Sgt Sh
Clerk
S-4 Supply Sgt
S/Sgt Eee
Asst Supply Sgt
1/5 QO,
Clerk
At this time 19,000 M/T of supplies were already ashore, with 7500
M/T afloat, and an additional 15,000 M/T due within a week.
Much of the .
cargo consisted of highly specialized items foreign to most military
personnel, and items especially constructed in the rear areas for specific
purposes.
To prevent delay, it was of the utmost importance to route these
items to the correct installations, islands and units.
Action'was
taken té obtain
troops from the 532d EB & SR, to repair
i
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the warehotises and‘to move all the equipment end supplies from the beaches
to the proper technical agencies’ warehouses.
This work was performed by
&
detachments of "D" and "E"Companies, 532d BB & SR.
Engineer Maintenance responsibility was assigned to Captain QP
Qaim, the Regimental Maintenance Officer of the 532d EB & SR.
The
Engineer Maintenance Platoon of the 532d EB & SR, commanded by lst Lt
=QQueaaat , was very well equipped and supplied with spare parts prior
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