This is the Sorlen Mess Hall.  Its cuisine was typical Navy with one exception being the previously mentioned Australian Ox liver rumored to be reverse lend-lease.  Our Chef featured this dish with onions weekly.  As I said previously the sharks in the lagoon relished it far more the sailors.

This is our shower conveniently built out over the beach to receive the grey water runoff.  Here we appear as a pretty raunchy bunch quite the equal of the Russian peasant troops then occupying defeated Germany.   I (back row left end) at any rate kept my shirt on.   

Here we are at the Fresh Water Plant.  The back end of two aof the evaporator units are in the background.  During maintainer, I was too tall to fit inside the unit to manually chip away the caked salt with a ball peen hammer.  That job fell to Baldwin the shortest of the group. He is wearing the whit hat on the left.

Pictured here are the potable water storage tanks nest to the evaporator stations.  Newly manfactured fresh water was pumpted into theste Tanks.  According to the Sorlen page from the Ulithi link on page 1, ther were 9 tanks of 5,000 gallons each.  I remember each night on the graveyard shift we really had to work the machines to get the tanks reasonably full.

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The Sorlen Island movie theaters was a simple screen structure with rows of coconut log bench seats.  I can not tell for sure where the projector was located,  There must have been some weather proof housing because I clearly remember watching a movie in rain gear while rain was falling in buckets around me.  Those are some palm trees, are they not?

This is one of the Generator units. Pictured is the generator end with its simple control panel.  Each of the two generator stations had two 100 KW diesel engine driven units.

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