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Col. Baish
Commended
For Activity
HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — This is the
story of the Army engineer con
struction officer for Alaska
though engineer teamwork is re
luctant to single an individual
from his unit. Col. Charles F.
Baish, C. E., is responsible for
the construction of military in
stallations in Alaska, under the
Engineer, Alaska Defense Com
mand.
Colonel Baish has jobs like'
Attu, figuring whether the Jap
installations are worth remaking
or whether to start in over again
on new roads and warehouses. He
h/as jobs like Kiska figuring to
have supplies, from lumber and
steel runway mats to bulldozers,
in on the initial landings so en
gineers can build under /ire. if
necessary. He has jobs like see
ing that uncharted areas are sur
veyed for installations and jobs
like building the docks, roads,
living quarters and operating
units for other branches of the
service^ according to their needs
and specifications before they ar
rive, or simultaneously with their
arrival.
He must see that the funda
mentals of bases are in so the
bombers can be going up against
the enemy in, say, six days after
unloading the construction mate
rial on the beaches.
Col. Baish’s construction proj
ects cover Alaska from the south
erampst limits of the southeast
to the end of the Aleutian chain
from the Canadian border in the
interior across to the Bering
Sea. Only section of the terri
tory the engineers have not
touched is that area roughly
north of the Arctic circle. Baish
himself has covered Alaska pret
,. . ,ty ..thoroughly by., snowshoe,
plane, train dogteam and boat.
Colonel Baish first came to
Alaska early in 1942, where he
has remained on somewhat his
torical and difficult engineer as
signments. The story of the unit
he brought in to Alaska would
be a pretty good story o the for
tification of the North, but since
that story must wait for pea^e,
A A A A ▲ A ▲ a a ~2 a
there is possible an ou4line of
Baish’s career of military engi
neering.
Born in Olean, New York.
Baish attended high school in
Sharon Pennsylvania, and was
graduated from the United
States Military Academy June
12, 1918 On the day of his
graduation he was appointed a
2nd Lt., 1st Lt., and Captain,
Corps of Engineers. Two months
after graduation he returned to
West Point as a mathematics
instructor and in 1919, made an
official trip as an Engieer Offi
cer observer of post war condi
tions in the European battle
fields. In 1920, he attended
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and was later with the
8th Engineers at Ft. Bliss Texas,
and the 3rd Engineers in Ha
waii.
Secretary and instructor at
the Engineer School, Fort Bel
voir, from 1927 to 1930. he re
turned to West Point as instruc
tor and assistant professor of
Engineering from 1931 to 1935.
From 1935 to 1937 he was with j
the U. S. Engineer Office at
Galveston, Texas, and from
1937 to 1940 was operations of
ficer of the Engineer Reproduc
tion Plant at the Army War
College in Washington. D. C.
After attending the Army In
dustrial College in 1#40 he was
assigned to an Enginner unit at
Camp Shelby, Mississippi, go
ing in early 1942 to Alaska.
After the Battle of Attu, Col.
Baish received his present as
signment: Engineer, Construc
tion Division, ADC. In this
poet, he must see that the civil
ian engineers the civilian clen
cal staff, the civilian construc
tion warkers and the engineer
technical troop units combine
their Army Engineer effors in
rushing projects to completiion
or initiating new installations
in the area of American bases
that rise from Seattle to Attu.
Baish counts his civilian as
sistants an important part of the
Engineer Construction Division
in Alaska.
“Every civilian engineer, con
struction or clerical worker
who decides to come here can
feel he or she is indeed a part
ner of the army. Our needs in
Alaska for definite skids and
training is great, our need for
the assistance of patriotic
Americans who may feel they
have not yet found the.:’ var
job, is grave. The ir.-.mer.
of our tasks here increases the
need for help in completing
these projects. Civilians A_a=
ka are members of a =- r: :f ex
peditionary force of the army
and are subject to military law
They are doing much for the
war effort.”
Colonel Baish's wife, Mrs.
Adelaide F. Baish, resides in
Tacoma with an infant daugh
ter Adelaide, another daughter
Shelia, who is a secretary at the
quartermaster commissary at
McChord Field, and a son,
Charles F. Baish, Jr. Another
daughter, Mrs. M.chael Christ
ian. wife of Lt. Christian Rental
CorpSi resides in Seattle.
A SLIGHT CASE
OF IDENTITY
WAKONDA. S. D. (API —
Dale Robert Petersor. and Rob
ert Dale Peterson have been
duly inducted1 into the ajjnved
forces, and is the draft board
and post office glad that’s over.
Dale Robert got both induc
tion notices and took both pre
liminary physical examinations,
but thought it was just part of
the rountine. Robert Dale got
no notice until he asked the
draft board secretary about his
classification.
They are not related.
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