General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

5212th Photographic Wing Reconnais-
sance (Provisional). Headquarters
and Headquarters Squadron.
6294th Air Freight Foryarding Squad-
ron (Provisionall.
Detachment, A T I S Ordnance Eche-
lon 2.
Headquarters and Headquarters Com-
pany, Service Command (APO 198).
Headauarters and Headauarters Com-
Bulk Petroleum, Detachment 5. I Service command (APO 293).
Bulk Petroleum Detachmcnt 6. Trailing Dog Detachment.
XV.. WESTERN PACIFIC.-I. Announcement is made of units awarded battle
participation credit nuder the provisions of paragraph 21b(2), AR mO-10, 25
October 1944, in the Western Pacific cnm~uign.
(b Cmnbat z-.-That portion of the central Pacific Area lying west of
longitude 150' east, lcss the main islands of Japan, the Bonin-Vnlcau, and the
Ryukyn Island chains, and the immediately ndjxcent waters.
b. Time 1imitatim.-17 April 1W4 (Air) ; 16 June 1444 (Ground), to 2 September
1945.
(1) 8 Januam 1945 isthe closing date for the area bounded as fallows:
0" latitude, 145' E., to 0' latitude, 130' E., thence to 18" N., 130' E.,
thence to 16' N., 138" E., thence to 10' N., 145" E., thence to start
point.
(2) 18 February 1945 is the closing date for the area bounded as follows:
0' latitude, 15Q' E., to OD latitude, 145' E,, thence north and northwest
along the easterly limit of area (1) to 140' E., thence nol'th
to 22" N., 140' E., thence east to the east limit of the combat mne.
Nm-Battle participation credit for this campaign may be awarded by the
theater commander to units or individuals who actually engaged the enemy
in the combat zone after the closing dates have been established.
2. When entering individual credit on officers' qualification cards (WD AGO
Forms W1 and 66-2) or in the service record of enlisted personnel (WD AGO
Form 241, this general orders may be cited as authority for such entries for
personnel who were present.for duty as a mcmher of or atinched to a unit listed
at some time during the limiting dates of thc Western Pacific cam aim3
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WESTERN PACIFIC-SEE-; : ,,I 95 -C
1st Air Base Operations Section. 28 Signal Service Battalion, Detach-
1st Aircraft Rcpair Unit (Floating). ment (APO 246).
1st Battalion, 147th Infantry Regiment. 2d Troop Carrier Terminal Enit.
Detachment.
3d Air Base Oprratianv Sqxulran.
1st Bomber Squadron (Vcry Heavy). 3d Air Command Group.
1st Provisional Air Corps Supply Barge, 3d Air Engineer Squadron.
Detachment (BCIA27).
3d Bombardment Group (Light).
1st Provisional Engineer Constrnction 38 Paciflc Ocean Area Transportation
Group, Headquarters and Headquar- Quartermaster Team.
ters Company.
36 Photographic Reconnaissance Ssuad-
Zd Air Base Operations Section.
ron.
Zd Aircraft Repair Unit (Floating). 3d Platoon, Companies A, B, and D, 5Gs
2d Combat Cargo Gronu.
Signal Aircraft Warning Uattalion.
2d Provisional Air corps Sup& P~arge, 3d Troop Carrier ~erminil Unit.
Detachment (BCL-629). 4th Air Base Operutions Section.
2d Provisional Signal Service Company,
Detachment 10.
Maintenance Unit (Float-
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