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Engineers Make History
At Alaska Bases
CoL Charles F. Baish, C. E.
This is the story of the Army
Engineer Construction Officer
for Alaska, though Engineer
teamwork is reluctant to single
an individual from his unit. Col.
Charles F Baish, O. E , is re
sponsible for the construction of
military installations in Alaska,
under the Engineer, Alaska De
fense Command.
Colonel Baish has jpbs like
Attu, figuring whether the Jap
installations are worth remaking
or whether to start in over again
on new roads and warehouses
He has jobs like Ki-ka, figuring
to have supplies, from lumber
and steel runway mats to bull
dozers, in on the initial landing
so Engineers can bu Id under
fire, if necessary. He has jobs
like seeing that uncharted areas
are surveyed for installations
and jobs like building the docks,
roads, living quartets and oper
aiing linits for other branches
of the service, according to tin ir
needs and specifications before
they arrive, 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, sav six days after
unloading the construction ma
terial on the beaches.
Col. Baish’s construction pro
jects cover Alaska from the
southernmost limits of the
Southeast to the end ot the
Aleutian chain, from the Cana
dian border in the interior across
to the Bering Sea. Only section
ot the territory the Engineers
have not touched 0 that avea
roughly north of the Artie circle.
Baish himself has covered Alaska
pretty throughly by snowshoe,
plane, train, dogteam and boat.
Colonel Baish first came to J
Alaska early in 1942, where he i
has r mained on somewhat his- j
torical and difficult Engineer
assignments. The stoiy of the
unit he brought in to Alaska
would be a pretty good story of
the fortification of the North,
but since that story must wait,
for peace, there is possible an
outline of Baish's career of mili
tary engineering
Born in Olean, New York,
Bai-h attended high school in 1
Sharon, Pennsylvania, and was
graduated from the United j
States Military Academy June
12, 1918. On the day of his
graduation he was appointed a1
2nd Lt , 1st Lt., and Captain,;
Corps of Engineers.
After the Battle of Attn. Col.
Baish received his present |
assignment: Engineer, Construe-1
tion Division, ADC. In th s
post he must see that the civil
ian engineers, the civilian cleri
cal staff, the civilian construe
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