SIR sctiiste LS IMAYS)
-- EPG
£O JChMSLON
May
323
June
31,995
July
17,664
Total
2
CAND
49,988 lb
In addition two special MATS flights were completed between Newburgh,
New York, and EPG carrying 46,000 lb of IBM equipment. This equipment
was returned from EPG to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the same manner.
It was ascertained that it would be too expensive to rehabilitate the
liquid nitrogen plant in the CMR Compound and hire trained personnel to
operate it, so in order to supply liquid nitrogen to the scientific groups using
this item, a 6000-liter dewar trailer partly filled was shipped on the Brostom
to Parry. This large storage dewar was kept filled by semiweekly shipments
from Honolulu by air in 500-liter dewar trailers, Thirteen thousand liters
of liquid nitrogen were purchased by LASL from Gaspro in Honolulu for air
shipment to Parry.
The liquid hydrogen plant was not put into operation for the same reasons. To meet the requirement for this item one 6000-liter dewar trailer
of liquid hydrogen was shipped by water to Eniwetok just before it was needed. Resupply of this item was not required.
3.5
MOVEMENT OF DEVICES AND COMPONENTS
Devices and components were moved to the Forward Area by MATS
special air missions, with the exception of DOD weapons, which were shipped
on the USS Boxer.
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stom tT
were shipped by Task Unit 4 and
the AEC to San Diego for loading on the USS Boxer in mid-February 1958.
The weapons were stowed {fn a hangar deck shop and in the ship's weapon
magazines. Stowage space was guarded by USMC guards. The USS Boxer
arrivedat the Eniwetok Proving Ground on March 3, 1958.
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An additional
peewee Were flown to the EPG on a SAM C-124 which arrived
at the EPG March 13, 1958.
- Bar Operation Newsreel it was necessary to fl
by SAM C-124's
as
follows:
June 15, 1958, units 1 and 4;
June 20, 1958, units 2 and 5; June
25, 1958, unit 3, plus 5000 lb of gear.
The experimental devices from LASL were moved in several ways from
the Laboratory to Travis AFB, which was the aerial port for shipment of
weapons. As a rule small weapons were moved by Carco C~54 from the
Santa Fe Airport, but {f total load did not exceed 1500 lb, they were flown
from the Los Alamos airstrip by C-47. Weapons exceeding the capability
of the C-54 were flown out of Santa Fe by C-124 and in the case of Pinon
(UN shot never fired), from Kirtland, on the SAM C-124 which flew the weapon to the EPG via Travis and Hickam.
Experimental devices from UCRL were moved from Livermore to
Travis by truck, with the exception of Poplar, Sycamore, and Pine, which
were picked up at Knoxville, Tenn., by SAM C~124's. UCRL preferred to
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