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Show ROBERT A. PARSON KECrjvTS RECOGNITION Robert A. Parson, Smithfield 1 Utah, and other members of thi 115th Naval Construction Bat tallon have won commendatioi for their work at Luzon, wher. they were called upon to com ; plete emergency repairs am landing strips while exposed t large caliber shelling and Jap ai attacks, the Navy has announcec Working in areas that had nc yet been announced as "secured the Seabees set up camp an radio facilities. Then, after tl Japs had been driven out, th repaired the pre-war water sui ply for the area, and erected tl major part of the buildings f ! that base. The Seabee outfit previous had seen action at Wilne Ba New Guinea, lata in 1943. Theij for four months, they work; around the clock, seven days!)' week, handling aa many as i projects at the same time, aj . never falling short of a deadli; on any of them. Records of the outfit show tl: at Milne, its members laid i equivalent of two square miles! concrete slabs, eight inches th . and lodged and milled more tlV 1,000,000 feet of native lumj-of lumj-of all sizes in a single mill. , |