Engineer
Camp Blanding, Florida, 1942
We arrived at Camp Butner in early July 1942. There was a delay in sending in fillers,
we spent
training
cadre of the battalion. After I'd been there about five
months, I was ordered to Camp Blanding, Florida, in November of 1942. One of
assistant division commanders of the 78th Infantry Division, Brigadier General (later
Lieutenant General) William K. Harrison, had been transferred to the 30th Infantry
Division Camp Blanding. He had known me in
78th as
exec of
engineer
When
division commander of the 30th Infantry Division wanted to find
another battalion commander for the engineer battalion of the 30th, apparently General
Harrison remembered me and recommended that I be transferred. That, apparently, as
near as I can find out, was the reason why I was picked out and ordered to Camp
Blanding to be the new battalion commander of the 105th Engineer Battalion of this
National Guard division drawn from the Carolinas and Tennessee. It had been called
to active duty and then cadred a number of times; that is, people moved out from that
The undefeated 105th Engineer Battalion baseball team, Camp Handing, Florida,
won the 30th Division championship, 9 May 1943. Lt.
Carroll Dunn stands upper left.
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