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CHAPTER Ill, SECTION 5
each of the off-island camps was provided with

an 8-man tent for use as the Commissary issue

room and for storage space. There was 63,374
square feet of floor space in various warehouse
structures at Elmer, and 512 square feet at
Ursula. Figure 3-13 shows warehouses Nos. 501,
502 and 503 on site Elmer, which were con-

structed under project 3028, Item A-38-A, and
completed in January 1953. Figure 3-14 shows
the bin arrangement in the Plumbing Warehouse, Building No. 502.

Outside storage areas were provided as
follows:
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
”
Site

Tare... ee 50,000
Charlie... 15,000
Fox... 15,000
Nan... 5,000
Elmer..........0000000000020...368,670
" (Classification yard..53,000
Ursula... 6,340

sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.

ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.

The outside storage area at Nan is shown

in Figure 3-15.

All incoming cargo was checked upon arrival on shore, and the storage destination was
designated. Upon arrival at the storage area,

all boxes or containers were opened and con-

tents were checked against the packinglist. If

discrepancies appeared, an Over, Short or Damage Report was initiated.

The Superintendent of Supply was furnished a list of the personnel who were authorized

Figure 3-12. Unloading Camco Trailers,
Eniwetok Lagoon

to sign stores requisitions and shipping requests.
To withdraw material from a warehouse, it was
necessary to present a stores requisition signed

by an authorized person. For interatoll or intra-

atoll cargo movement, a shipping request was

direct movement of refrigerated cargo from the

pier to the cold storage area was accomplished

by mobile forklifts.

Bulk fuel was delivered to the tank farms

located on sites Elmer, Fred and Sugar through
submarine piping systems. Tankers tied-up to

the POL mooring buoys which were located offshore at each tank farm. The submarine lines
terminated in hose which was connected by

chain to a third buoy. This chain was used to
pick up and relay the hose for all fueling operations.

initiated indicating the use feature at destination. Interatoll scheduled shipments were gen-

erally made via LST, but, regardless of the type
of vessel, every interatoll ship movement neces-

sary for any reason was utilized to the maxi-

mum extent for carrying cargo between atolls.
The interatoll shipment of cargo is depicted

graphically in Figure 3-16.

JOBSITE MATERIAL AND PROPERTY
CONTROL
During the Operation, requisitions were
screened through Kardex records before ma-

Six warehouses, each 24’ x60’ were constructed at Bikini Atoll for OPERATION
CASTLE. Four of these were located at site
Tare and one each at site Fox and site Charlie.
Of the four at site Tare, two were used for

adequate replacements or substitutions were available or procured. Allocations of materials

The warehouses at sites Fox and Charlie were
used for general stores. At site Nan, part of

requirements were known, at which time they

general stores and two for subsistence stores.

the electrical shop was utilized for general stor-

age. Since the more remote camps drew their

stores directly from Tare, no subsistence ware-

houses were erected at the other sites. However,
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terials were issued, to insure that allocated materials were not being used for other purposes
or, if the materials were released for use, that

were made against specific or general construc-

tion commitments until such time as definite

were posted to use features. Reviews were made
of stock levels against established re-order
points, and maintenance stock replacement requisitions were subsequently initiated for items

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