Lf CHAPTER II, SECTION 4 (Neg. No. W-V-224-3) Figure No. 2-127. Typical Building — Off-Atoll. out the construction period, pleasant relations were maintained with the Nauru Administration and the natives. The station was turned over to the Air Force on 2 April 1958. Equipment installed in all Weather and Rad-safety Stations included power generators, distillation units, acid pumps, salt and fresh water pumps, water and fuel tanks, reefers, stoves and griddles, ice-makers, refrigerators and freezers, electric water coolers, hot water heaters, sinks, and hot lockers. SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS. Submarine cable systems on both Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls were tested during the interim period immediately following Operation REDWING. In November 1957 Work Orders were received directing the replacement of certain portions of the existing systems and the laying of some new lines of 16-pair and 26-pair cables. Cables were placed between Station 77.02 on Janet and Station 25 off Alice bypassing the Gene Complex because of the scheduled KOA event. Prior to each barge event, a 16-pair and a 26-pair cable were tied in between the barge and the nearest timing or control station. One cable was laid on the oceanside reef at Elmer to circumvent digging a trench for the cable laying. Page 232 A new method of laying submarine cable wasdevised during this Operation, using an LCU carrying four reels of cable on racks as the prime vehicle. After spending a pair of reels, the loose ends were passed to a splicing crew in an accompanying LCM; the LCU then continued laying cable and was met by a second LCM also carrying a splicing crew. Thus, laying and splic- ing were carried on simultaneously. By 15 June 1958 more than 187,000 feet of 16-pair and 554,000 feet of 26-pair submarine cable had been laid at Bikini Atoll. During the same pe- riod, more than 125,000 feet of 16-pair and 268,000 feet of 26-pair submarine cable had been placed at Eniwetok Atoll. ROADS, CAUSEWAYS AND MAN-MADE ISLANDS. On Bikini Atoll the existing causeways on Tare Complex and between Fox and George were rebuilt with no complicating factors. Roads on causeways were made 20 feet with a protective berm on each: side. Causeways on Eniwetok Atoll connecting Gene and Helen, and Helen and Irene were built with little trouble. The old causeway between Helen and Irene was destroyed in Operation REDWING and could not be rebuilt because of the deep crater. Consequently, a new causeway was built in a north-