Carpenter Shop labored continuously installing, repairing and maintaining facilities to provide not only the essential needs, but expanded and improved to provide comfort wherever possible.
CHRONOLOGICAL REPORT OF HEADQUARTERS COMPANY, 532nd EB & SR
The second part of this chapter is divided into a chronological
report of Headquarters Company, 532nd EB & SR, which provided either
the supervision, the manpower or the administration for the general
duties on Eniwetok and Parry.
Upon the assumption of the additional duties prescribed by higher
headquarters, the following picture of the functions of the sections
of Headquarters Company is presented.
Orderly Room personnel were
responsible for administration of Headquarters Company plus two hundred
and fifteen (215) additional personnel; Supply Section was responsible
for the normal supply problems plus the added burden of the aforementioned added personnel; Mess Section was responsible for the operation of a
consolidated mess feeding between seven hundred (700) and thirteen
hundred and fifty (1350) enlisted men; The Comminications Section was
used extensively as a utilities section in the maintenance, repair,
renovation and construction buildings after their initial commmications jobs were completed.
In addition, enlisted menwere requested
for the maintenance of distillation units and large generators and
additional clerks had to be supplied for the S-1, 2, 3, and 4 Sections
of ISCOM Headquarters.
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