# WARDTACK in March 1958 until its conclusion on 18 August 1958. The sampling aircraft flew 2,0 sampling missions and logged 1,635 flying hours. The effects aircraft flew 47 successful missions on 18 shots and logged 347 flying hours. The Asrial Photography Ele- ment flew 32 missions on certain specified shots and logged 199 fly- ing hours in support of both documentary and technical photography requirements. The Weather Reconnaissance Element flew 33h flights and logged 3,696 flying hours obtaining weather information over an area that stretched from the Territory of Hawaii to a point west of Guam and covered well over 10,000,000 square miles, in the Central Pacific. In addition to the flying activities listed above, during this operational phase the Task Group operated weather reporting and communications stations at eight (8) island sites remote from the testing location. While the operational phase was still in progress, some elements completed their projects and rolled up their personnel and equipment and returned to their home station. First of these was the Navy Effects Element which completed its scheduled participation on the ELDER shot on 28 June. They were followed shortly by the Air Force Effects Element which completed their mission on the POPLAR Event on 12 July. When on 27 July it was officially announced that PINON, the open shot for the United Nation Observers and news personnel, had been can= celled there were only two (2) very small shots left to be fired at Eniwetok and the two (2) high altitude missile shots te be fired at Johnston Island. At this time, weather reporting requirements were decreased in the Eniwetok Proving Ground and immediate rcll-up of Weather 6l, AFWLUHO