Carroll H. Dunn
Q ..
It was a thesis?
A ..
Position of the Division Engineer in the Engineer Combat Battalion.
The title was
The author was
Hatch. That would have been in
I think.
Q ..
And that was on the subject
A ..
The dual role for the division engineer.
Q ..
Now you said that was your experience in World War II Was it generally true of
others?
A ..
As
as I know, it was fairly common, although not all of them operated exactly the
same. Nothing changed as a result of the questionnaire as far as I was concerned. I
must admit,
I don't remember exactly how the vote came out.
Q ..
Now we move to Tokyo- o r can you think of any more that you want to say about
Fort Belvoir'?
A
No, I don't think so.
General Headquarters, Far East Command, 1949-1952
Q ..
In Tokyo, where you spent three years from September 1949 to August 1952 with
General Headquarters, Far East Command- t h i s was basically involved with Korea,
was it not?
A ..
Yes, during the later years. But I personally was more involved with Japan and
Okinawa than with Korea. When I was assigned to Japan, I was supposed to be the
engineer for IX Corps, but somewhere along the way, after I had left the States, my
assignment was changed to the Far East Command headquarters. Initially, I was in the
supply division of the engineer section. I was not particularly happy since I had been
looking forward to being the corps engineer, IX Corps. After a short period there, a
new development occurred. A decision was made by the Secretary of the Army that the
construction to develop a base on Okinawa would be transferred from the Corps of
Engineers, Western Pacific Division, to the Far East Command engineer. The effort
basically would be oriented toward using Japan for materials and contractors since
Okinawa had been a Japanese colony and possibly would be again.
The U.S. was spending a lot of money in support of the Japanese and the Okinawans,
and the theory was that we could combine two requirements. Instead of just giving
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