Kodiak
                                     28 November 1945


D-2             ALASKA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM          ACSEN
	          ENGINEERING OFFICE
	            Ft. Greely, Alaska


                                       31 December 1943.

Subject:  Monthly Progress Report Project D-2.

To:       Office of Officer in Charge, 
          Alaska Communication System, 
          Box 219, 
          Anchorage, Alaska.

     1.  Icy condition of roads and high winds are making the 
transportation of men and equipment by truck and boat diffi-
cult and causing considerable delay in the completion of this 
project.

     2.  In the Long Island Area:  All equipment in the 
switchboard room is installed; batteries are installed; all 
cables and terminals are installed and ninety five per cent 
spliced except for 640' aerial span to North Cape and a short 
run to Battery #4 Plotting room at Deer Point which is not 
yet finished; telephones in tactical structures are 85% in-
stalled; BD95 switchboards will be installed the first part 
of January and system should be in service by 1 February.

     3.  In the Chiniak Area: All equipment in switchboard 
room is completely installed; batteries are installed; ex-
cept for l5-20,000 feet of cable at Narrow Cape and the ter-
minals at the guns, all cables and terminals are completely 
installed; some loading may have to be added to some cables 
in this area; Soquel Pt. cable and terminals were installed 
latter part of December; cable cutover at switchboard room 
will be made after entire installation is completed as all 
cables are in use through temporary terminations; creosoted 
wood markers with stencilled lead tags have been placed at 
all splices showing cable count, distance to switchboard and 
distances to adjacent splices; installation of telephones 
will begin the second week in January.

     4.  In the Artillery Hill Area: Cable has been laid on 
the Kizhuyak Point run from the west side of Lake Genevieve 
to Crag Pt. and is 50% spliced, the only gap being a 1300 
foot piece of submarine which must be laid across an arm of 
Anton Larsen Day and as the Bay is now frozen it way not be 
possible to place this section until spring; there is a gap.
of 2000' from the West shore of Lake Genevieve toward Artil- 
lery Hill and a gap of 1000' at the HDCP yet to be laid how- 
ever the ditch is open and the cable will be laid as soon as
weather conditions permit; a 1400 ft. section of 26 pair
aerial cable to serve the Harbor Defense Garrison on Artillery


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