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FIGURE 57. Troops mustered for overseas embarkation. Circa 1943.
Note: The Navy constructed barracks, a dispensary, a theater, athletic field, galley and other necessary
buildings in a large area on the northeast side of the island. When construction was completed,
a fence was installed about the perimeter of the entire area. All servicemen destined for deployment
to their assigned ship were restricted to the area inside the fence unless they had obtained a pass.
The Treasure Island station was able to increase the rate of loading men aboard ships from three
hundred men per hour to a thousand men per hour. This in tum raised the overall embarkation rate
from twenty five thousand men per month to a capacity of sixty thousand men per month.. The
maximum number of men to ever embark in one month was forty three thousand men who were
processing to go home from the war.

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