e.
Air Trensporteation,
Air transportation continued to show an
increase for the report period.
The demande for air transportation
kept pace with the increased activity of Holmes & Narver
in the northerly islands.
operations
The table below reflects the increase over
previous report:
Month
Passenger
Passengers
Miles Flown
Carried
Pilot
Hours
Nurber of
Landings
January
2,806
169
146
February
12, 603
472
320
748
March
24,553
994
561
1,153
April
19,247
1,103
" 422
1,178
May
28,184
1,402
"464
1,769
Juns
23,285
1,252
443
1,343
July
24,098
1,870
“244/15
«1,506
August
36,435
2,147
405/55
1,927
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403
During July, seven (7) L-13's and two (2) H-19's were in operation?
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during August twelve (12) L-13's and two (2) H-19's.
fo Operations. A conference was held 7 August 1952, between
Commander, 1 132.2, Commanding Officer, USS (akhill, and Trensportetion
a
Officer, % 132.2 to establish Joint procedures andlinits between Naval.
3
Elemente and this Task Group in regard to port operations.
resulted in an agreement that
‘his meeting nh
20k Group 162.32 would control all line
Naval vessels and that nahn, 132.2 would continue to control all
MSTS, commercial and Naval vessels that are purely cargo carriers.
Shipping operations were increased considerably over the previous
period. For summary of port activities refer to table in Section Y.
tf.