Also the five (5) U. S. Weather Bur-u Persouel at Wake Istid are per. rnanentlyassi~ed there. The figures above Include US personnel, at IkJuro, Wake and Eongerik 3. U#wQa All ptiing for Operation SAliDS’lXMl was based for the most part on the experiencegained at Bik~i. All staff meteorologistshad pa.F- ticipated in Operation CROSSROQS @ p-~ was directed toward the improvementof techniques used there. without adding to the logiatical problems to the Task l?orc% Aleo, P- were formulted for a more thorough collectionof scientific data than was possible for the CEOSSEOADS operation. At f irct the staff weather officers were concerned with the solution of problems associated with operating a Weather Center aboard the Flagship, Previously any such operation had used the facilities of a land based unit such as the weather central at Xw@alei& It muld b% B* essary to collect and analyse seweral tImes the usnal amonnt of data avail.ab le to a ship’s serological office. The Ht. llcXinley,the ~la@ship, had serious space limitatIons in the serological office. Also, It was realimd that weather communicant ion trtific would necessarilyhave to be kept to a minimum because of the heavy load of other traffic that would be present at critIcal operatio-1 periods. The Ccmmuntcation dilemma was partially overcome by plans to put a radio-teletypein the . serological office UO that throughout the day the radio-teletypeboardcast froa Weather Central Guam would by-pass the co8munIcators emi come directly to the plotters of the weather charts. 8 SMTIOM XII