For June, mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1)
days remained at Three (3) per day.
During this period, four (4) missions
were flown on two (2) days, three (3) per day on sixteen days, two (2) per
day on eleven (11) days and one (1) per day once.
During the month of July mission requirements for D minus two (2) and
D minus one (1) days remained at three (3) per day.
weather tracks were flown.
During this period 79
Operation NEWSREEL at Johnston Island required
two (2) weather tracks per day beginning 25 July.
To meet requirements at
toth Eniwetok and Johnston, it was decided to move the periodic maintenance
capability of the Weather Reconnaissance Element to Hickam AFB and to stage
aircraft there from Eniwetok.
One (1) aircraft was to depart Eniwetok
daily and give weather reports for that area on its outbound track.
In-
bound to Hickam, it would give a report on Johnston Island area weather.
A flight on a reverse track woyld depart Hickam daily for Eniwetok, giving
the required daily coverage.
On 26 July, however, it was decided that
weathe> reconnaissance flights were no longer needed for Eniwetok,
Between
that date and 1 August, all the WB-SO aircraft departed for Hickam.
All
further NEWSREEL weather reconnaissance was performed from Hickam AFB,
During HARDTACk, the Weather Reconnaissance Element flew 3696
hours and 33h missions,
Of these 32) were weather reconnaissance missions
ten (10) were cloud sampler missions,
For a complete resume of WB-50 fly-
ing activities, see Figure 2.
A highly trained organization of specialists in the Weather Centeral
Element collected weather data from a variety of sources, analyzed this
data and with a high degree of accuracy furnished to Commander, Joint Task
Force SEVEN the weather forecasts vital to the successful firing of a
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