PAGE FORTY 1177TH HISTORY
5TH - CAPT ERNEST M NEWBOLD PLACED ON TDY 1HIS HEADQUARTERS
FROM THE 1332 ENGINEER GENERAL SERVICE REGIMENT.
6TH - THE 13061H AND 1332ND ENGINEER GENERAL SERVICE
REGIMFNTS AND THE 772ND ENGINEER DUMP TRUCK COMPANY WERE
ASSIGNED TO AREA "C", PER OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS #1, HQS,
GENERAL ENGINEER DISTRICT.
12TH - MAJOR LESLIE N BONEY RELIEVED DETACHED SERVICE WITH
THIS HEADQUARTERS.
16TH - HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY WAS ALERTED FOR
MOVEMENT THIS DATE.
20TH - CAPT EDWARD A C MAC PHERSDN RELIEVED TDY WITH THIS
ORGANIZATION AND RETURNED TO 1871ST ENGINEER AVIATION
BATTALION.
24TH - 2ND LT KEITH T KARNS ASSIGNED THIS HEADQUARTERS FROM
1871ST ENGINEER AVIATION BATTALION WITH DUTY AS ASSISTANT
OPERATIONS OFFICER.
30TH - 1ST LT GEORGE F YANTIS DUTY TO TDY THE UNITED STATES
FOR PURPOSE OF FORTY-FIVE (45) DAY REST AND RECUPERATION.
UNIT STRENGTH: 13 OFFICERS - 74 ENLISTED MEN
SEPTEMBER 1945:
2ND - THE UNIT IS RELIEVED FROM ASSIGNMENT TO AFWESPAC AND
IS ASSIGNED TO THE SIXTH ARMY PER GENERAL ORDER 185 HQS
SIXTH ARMY, DATED 2 SEPTEMBER 1945.
9TH - ADVANCE ECHELON OF THE SIX FOLLOWING OFFICERS
DEPARTED THIS STATION FOR KYUSHU, JAPAN:
COLONEL WENDELL P TROWER
MAJOR JOSEPH R WOLFE
MAJOR WILLIAM O EVANS
CAPTAIN HAROLD M SATHER
CAPTAIN ERNEST M NEWBOLD
2ND LT HAROLD P BREHM
- 1ST LT LESLIE N COLLIS PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN THIS DATE
PER PAR 1, SO 244, HQS SIXTH ARMY, LUZON, P.I.
10TH - ADVANCE PARTY OF ONE (1) WOJG AND FOUR (4) ENLISTED
MEN DEPARTED FOR LINGAYEN GULF TO PREPARE A BIVUOAC AT THE
SIXTH ARMY STAGING AREA.
l6TH - THE UNIT DEPARTED FROM SAN JUAN HEIGHTS, MANILA.
P.I., AT 0845, FOR SIXTH ARMY STAGING AREA AT AGOO, LINGAYEN
GULF, LUZON, P. I. ARRIVED DESTINATION AT 1730 AND JOINED
ADVANCE PARTY.
