PAGE FOURTEEN 353RD HISTORY         

         

               5.  STOCKADE FENCE, TOWERS AND WALk WAYS

               6.  BAYONET DUMMY FRAMES AND TOWER.

               7.  FIXED BRIDGE

               8.  INCINERATOR SLAB

               9.  FILL BOX IN DISPERSAL AREA

              10.  CONSTRUCTION OF CULVERTS THROUGHOUT CAMP AREA WEST

                    OF LITTLE BUTTE ROAD.

              11.  PADDOCK FENCE AND CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB FOR STABLE

              12.  GAS CHAMBER ADDITION

              13.  SALVAGE WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION

              14.  MISCELLANEOUS FENCES IN CANTONMENT AND TRAINING

                    AREAS

         

              UNIT STRENGTH:  15 OFFICERS - 1276 ENLISTED MEN



         MAY 1945

         

              ON THE 2ND THE BULLDOZER BASEBALL TEAM WON THEIR 9TH

         CONSECUTIYE GAME BY DEFEATING THE 516TH ENGINEERS WITH A

         SCORE OF 17 TO 4.

         

              THE REGIMENTAL COLORS WERE PRESENTED TO THE REGIMENT ON

         THE 5TH AT A RETREAT PARADE BY BRIGADIER GENERAL AMOS

         THOMAS, COMMANDING GENERAL, CAMP WHITE, OREGON. GENERAL

         THOMAS HIGHLY COMMENDED THE REGIMENT FOR ITS WORK AT CAMP

         WHITE.

              

	      ON THE 7TH, THE REGIMENT’S LAST OFFICIAL DAY BEFORE

         DEPARTURE FROM CAMP WHITE TO CAMP STONEMAN, CALIF., AT A

         REGIMENTAL FORMATION, THE REGIMENTAL COAT OF ARMS WAS

         REMOVED AND PLACED IN STORAGE AND THE REGIMENTAL COLORS AND

         COMPANY GUIDONS WERE PLACED UNDER SEAL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS IT

         WILL AGAIN BE APPROPRIATE TO DISPLAY THEM. THE REGIMENT WAS

         FORMED FACING THE COAT OF ARMS, WHICH WAS PLACED PARALLEL TO

         11TH STREET, MIDWAY BETWEEN "B" AND "C" STREETS. THE

         REGIMENTAL COMMANDER, COLONEL TROWER, MADE A BRIEF

         COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS, NOTING THE FACT THAT THE THREE SENIOR

         NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS OF THE REGIMENT, M/SGTS KUNA,

         MEYER AND WANNER, WHO ORIGINALLY PLACED THE PLAQUE IN PLACE,

         REMOVED IT. HE ADDED THAT THE PLAQUE HAD HELD ITS POSITION

         OF HONOR AS A WITNESS TO THE REGIMENTS GROWTH, TRAINING AND

         ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND DIRECTED THAT IT BE REMOVED AND STORED

         AND THAT THE COLORS AND GUIDONS BE PLACED UNDER SEAL.

         

              ON THE SAME DAY, THE 7TH, THE 353RD ENGINEER (G.S.)

         REGIMENT DEPARTED CAMP WHITE AND PROCEEDED TO CAMP STONEMAN.

         CALIF. ON TWO TRAINS AT 1700 AND 1900, PER PAR. 7, SO#104,

         HQS., CAMP WHITE, OREGON, DATED 4 MAY 1943, FOR A PERMANENT

         CHANGE OF STATION.

         

              ON THE 6TH WILLIAM SWIGGETT, 1ST LT. C.E., JOINED THE

         REGIMENT FROM THE 398TH ENGINEER REGIMENT, CAMP CLAIBORNE,

         LA. AND ON THE 11TH ROBERT D. CUMMINS, WOJG, JOINED THE

         REGIMENT FROM ENGINEER SCHOOL, FT. BELVOIR, VA.