fvor June, mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1) days .emained at Three (3) per day, During this period, four (4) missions were flown on two (2) days, three (3) per day on sixteen days, two (2) per day on eleven (11) days and one (1) per day once, During the month of July mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1) days remained at three (3) per day. weather tracks were flown. During this period.79 — Operation NEWSREEL at Johnston Island required two (2) weather tracks per day beginning 25 July. To meet requirements at toth Eniwetok and Johnston, it was decided to move the periodic maintenance capability of the Weather Reconnaissance Element to Hickam AFB and to stage aircraft there from Eniwetok. One (1) aircraft was to depart Eniwetok daily and give weather reports for that area on its outbound track. In bound +o Hickam, it would give a report on Johnston Island area weather. A flight on a reverse track woyld depart Hickam daily for Eniwetok, giving phe required daily coverage. On 26 July, however, it was decided that weaths> recornaissance flights were no longer needed for Eniwetok. Between that date and 1 August, all the WB-50 aircraft departed for Hickam, All furthez NEWSREEL weather reconnaissance was performed from Hickam AFB, During HARDTACh, the Weather Reconnaissance Element flew 3696 hours and 334 missions. Of these 32h were weather reconnaissance missions ten (10) were cloud sampler missions, For a complete resume of WB-50 fly- ing activities, see Figure 2. A highly trained organization of specialists in the Weather Centeral Element collected weather data from a variety of sources, analyzed this data and with a high degree of accuracy furnished to Commander, Joint Task sevune - 4 <<. Force SEVEN the weather forecasts vital to the successful firing of a