3.18.4
Headquarters Roll-up
The FA Headquarters of TG 7.1 closed as of 2400 hours, July 29, 1956
(Eniwctok time and date),
The mail end teletype service continue t to be
handled by the Mail and Records Section of d-t on Parry Island until
August 4, 1956, when this function was asoumed by the Branch Manager of
the AEC Eniwetok Branch Office.
Seventy-eight boxes of ciassifier! records of the Task Group were re-
turned to
All
locations
HON and
*3,19
home stations by air a few days after the last detonation.
ARC and DOD equipment was shipped to the respective headquarters’
in the U.S. Furniture and other office equipment on loan from
TC 7.2 were returac! to their warehouses or left in place.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
“3.19.1
General
June and July provided substantially more firing weather than March,
Avril, and May. Weather studies should continue and, if they confirm the
appr rent superiority of the cummer months for firing purposes, tests shoul?
be scheduled accordingly.
Since weather that wuuld otherwise be acceptabie for megaton shots
usually presaged some fatlout to the westward, there were fewer good firiaz
days for large shots at Bikini than at Eniwetok. In order to make octirmim
use of both atolls, some meenten shots should be scheduled in the Mike
crater at Eniwetok and necessary stations to instrument them shou'd be con-
structed.
Facilities for housing and messing personnel at the PPG durin Red-
wins were quite inadequate in at least three camps, and only burely adequate
at other locations. Severe overcrowding on Eniwetok Island was due to the
extensive military effects test programs, particularly those involving participation of aircraft. Since it is unlikely that effects programs will be smaller
in the future, it is recommended that the facilities on Eniwetok Island be
substantially increased to provide adequate quarters and other living facilities
for the anticipated population of the next operation.
The planned size and the camps "as built" at Romurikku and Runit
were inadequate, in view of the population estimates. It had been hoped that
construction and some service personnel could be moved out before the technical personnel required quarters in these camps, but last minute requirements made it necessary for construction and technical personnel to work
at these sites at the same time. As a result, the camp facilitles were
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