The Chemical Service Company

the service units that the CWS placed overseas, for the most part in the Pacific, were far from uniform in size, makeup, or functions. In some cases, rather than maintain company organizations for scattered service detachments, companies were inactivated and their 

93d Chemical Composite Company Testing Flame Thrower Fuels, Inline Bay, Neu Guinea. 

The 9ad s mission at Oran was primarily the creation of a consolidated CWS depot near MBS headquarters. Four outlying depots were closed out and their stocks moved to the new central installation, a former engineer storage center with ample facilities. It took more than a month to get the 4,000 tons of CWS materiel crated, consoli- 

On arrival, the 240th went into bivouac at Cape Cretin and began functioning for the time being as a depot unit, helping out with the 

The remainder of Unit i joined the depot team on Morotai on ii October, by which time the operation had been declared over and the work of building an air base was well under way. The unit continued operation of the CWS dump, put up warehouses with space for maintenance operations, and did a brisk business in picking up and reconditioning gas masks. The unit remained in place on Morotai, attached to the 31st Division, until the last week in January 1945, when it joined the 33d Division and embarked for Luzon.  

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