III i7L An important part of the riaintenance Control Unit was the emergency team, constituted, as in mDwlNC, to effect rapid removal of imwnooilized aircraft from the sniwetok runway in case of acciaent. On 18 June 1958, a B-57U of the Sampling Hlement landed on the FD runway with an unsafe nose gear. mui, and was imnooilized, The gear collapsed during the landing The emergency team utilized a crane belonging to jolmes and Nurver to raise the aircraft, enabling the team to lower Lie gear and tow the aircraft to a maintes:.ance area, re uired 13 minutes, The removal process After 113 maintenance man-hours the aircraft was ayain put in commission, v d, -IKLIFT Airlift for haiwTaca was dividea into three categories, inter-island aiclift, inter-atoll airlift, and re-supply ¢f sweatner and Project Islands. The inter-island airlift involved the servicing of sites withi:. the iniwetox and J3ikini Atolls, The Bikini phase was, in tne main, accomp>lished o, a syuadron of 15 -arine helicopters. ab oniwetok, six H-19's and nine n-2l's verformed tne airlift iission to sites wnere nu landing strips were avallable. Hight 1-20 aircraft of tne Test Base Unit fulfilled commitments to sites wnere Landing strips were availaole, AFWL/ HQ