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              ON THE 12TH GLEN F. SUDMAN, 1ST LT. C.E., WAS PROMOTED

         TO CAPTAIN.

         

              ON THE 9TH FIFTY ENLISTED MEN (REPLACEMENTS) ARRIVED

         FROM EUTC, CAMP CLAIBORNE, LA.

         

              FOLLOWING OFFICERS WERE TRANSFERRED THIS MONTH:

         

          5TH - CAPT. HARRY E. POLLARD TO FORT MACARTHUR, CALIF.

          7TH - CAPT. JOHN S. FULTON TO SCU 1913 CAMP WHITE, OREGON

                1ST LT. EDWARD R. WARNER TO SCU 1913 CAMP WHITE, ORE.

                WOJG HYMAN SADOFF TO SCU 1913 CAMP WHITE, OREGON

         14TH - 1ST LT. JAMES W. THOMAS        ) TO:

                1ST LT. CHARLES G. H. GALLAGER )

                2ND LT. FREDERICK H. OUEHL     ) CASUAL

                2ND LT. ROBERT C. SWENHOLT     )   OFFICERS POOL

                2ND LI. JOHN CARROTT           )    CAMP STONEMAN.

                2ND LT. ROBERT E. DUNCAN       )     CALIFORNIA

         

              ON THE 21ST THE REGIMENT DEPARTED CAMP STONEMAN,

         PITTSBURG, CALIF. VIA HARBOR BOATS, ARMY QUEEN AND CABRILLA,

         PER PAR. 7, SO#138, HQS., CAMP STONEMAN AT 1545 AND 1730

         RESPECTIVELY. THE REGIMENT WAS LOADED ON THE U.S.A.T

         FRESIDENT GRANT, PIER 45B, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. BY 2230.

         

              ON THE 22ND THE PRESIDENT GRANT PASSED THROUGH THE

         GDLDEN GATE, SAN FRANCISCO BAY BOUND FOR NOUMEA, NEW

         CALEDONIA.

         

              ON THE 23RD THROUGH THE 27TH WE WERE ESCORTED SOUTH

         DOWN THE COAST BY A NAVY BLIMP. IT LEFT US ON OUR OWN SOUTH

         OF THE PANAMA CANAL WHERE WE TURNED TO THE WEST-SOUTHWEST

         TOWARD NEW CALEDONIA.

         

              UNIT STRENGTH:  54 OFFICERS - 1267 ENLISTED MEN



         JUNE 1943:

         

              ON THE 7TH WE ALL FELT A SIGH OF RELIEF WHEN THE USS

         STANLEY CALL, A DESTROYER ESCORT, JOINED US AS AN ESCORT

         SOMEWHERE JUST NORTHWEST OF THE SOCIETY ISLANDS.

         

              WE LOST THE 10TH OF JUNE BY CROSSING THE INTERNATIONAL

         DATE LINE AND MOST OF US DID NOT GET THAT DAY BACK FOR

         APPROXIMATELY TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

         

              ON THE 12TH WE DOCKED AT NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA’S QUAY

         AND WERE IMMEDIATELY TRANSPORTED BY TRUCK CONVOY TO THE

         REGIMENT’S NEW CAMP SITE AT DUMBEA, NEW CALEDONIA. WE

         BIVUOACKED IN THE DUMEBEA RIVER VALLEY A MILE AND A HALF NORTH

         OF ROUTE #1 ON DUMBEA ROAD. (REMEMBER THE RAIN STORM THAT

         NIGHT?) THE PLANNING AND LAYOUT OF THE TENT CITY STARTED

         IMMEDIATELY AND BY MORNING OF THE 13TH, ON ARRIVAL OF SOME