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To:
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C F Dunlap
RE:
Surveys of weather Station Sites at Rongelap,
Utirik, Wotho & Ujelang atolls
1710
Airborne
1820
Arrived at Kwajalein Naval Air Station.
1900
Arrived at assigned quarters.
5 July 1957
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2 July 1957
0730
Passengers (Emens, Tobin, Gergely, Sideris, Curran, Klanchar & Moran)
aboard UF-1, 928,
0807
Airborne.
0950
Landed and anchored off weather station site, Utirik.
1030
Tobin, Gergely, 3 H & N men boarded raft.
1035
Ashore, commenced survey.
1335
Concluded survey.
lines.
Raft returned to plane for Huens & Sideris.
In course of same Tobin concurred in location of
Estimated area of site at 1.1 acres.
4, pandanus trees on the site.
during construction:
There are 90 coconut and
Natives state the following were destroyed
12 Coconut
1 Breadfruit
4 Pandanus
1355
3 H & N aboard UF-1,
1425
Emens, Tobir, Gergely and Sideris came aboard.
1505
Airborne.
1630
Arrived at Kwajalein Naval Air Station.
3 July 1957
0715
Passengers aboard UF~1, same party as 2 July.
0735
Airborne.
0835
Landed off weather station site, Wotho.
0850
Survey party ashore, commenced survey,
remainder of party.
2215
Survey of 3 sites completed.
1240
Raft returned to plane for
Party aboard UF~1,
Weather station site has 60 coconut and 5 pandanus trees. 2 coconut
trees destroyed during construction. Station 562.01, 7 cocomts, 8
pandanus. Station 562.02, 6 pandanus. Natives estate that 100 cocomt
trees were destroyed in construction of all 3 sites.
estimated at 0.66 acres.
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Weather site