Chemical officers with task forces

Chemical officers with CTF—Colonel Burn, task force (II Corps) chemical officer. Major Croen, acting chemical officer of Mediterranean Base Section, and Colonel Elliott, chemical officer of Twelfth Air Force and XII Air Force Service Command—landed near Oran from the assault and assault support convoys (11-21 November 1942) to find... 

When Sixth Army became the major SWPA American ground element, on a level co-ordinate with USASOS, in February 1943, it assumed responsibility for tactical supply. Colonel C. L. Marriott, Sixth Army chemical officer, arrived in Australia with the second echelon of the army in April but remained only a short time before moving forward to Milne Bay with Alamo Force, a task force created in June 194 from Sixth Army troops, and in fact a forward echelon of the army. Marriott s office was thus separated by i,aoo air miles from Copthorne s. Marriott s assistant. Major McKinney, remained in the Sixth Army headquarters. The only expeditious means of communication was by radio, but with such heavy demands on the radio net, normal communication was by letter or informal memo. ... 

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