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Over a sustained period of five (5) months, these
specialists provided this information.
A lion's share of the data from
which the Weather Central made its forecasts was furnished by other Task
Group 7.) Elements concerned with the gathering of weather information,
The Weather Reporting Element with eight (8) island stations outside the
Eniwetok Proving Groud, as well as two (2) from within, functioned smoothly
in its data gathering responsibility.
The Weather Reconnaissance Element
with its ten (10) WB-50 aircraft flew 32h weather reconnaissance missions
and 3696
hours over an area reaching from Hawaii to points west of Guan,
covering over 10,000,000 square miles of the Central Pacific in fulfilling
its responsibility to the network weather information gathering.
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