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 _ _ 403 During July, seven (7) L-13's and two (2) H-19's were in operation? vee 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.