J3-DDH-B115
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10 June 1958
MISCELLANEOUS:
a, Summary of activities on the first MAPIE <1 day, Monday, 9 June 1958:
1740 ~ UMBRELLA Flyaway #1 departed Fred,
2150 ~ LCDR Gray from TEXAS informed J~3 it was still MAPLE~l,
personnel and TUs notified.
Tuesday
0055 - Col Pinson called from BIKINI,
site at 0052, ETA at NAN 0215,
0330 - MAPLE postponed until 1330M.
All personnel notified.
MAPIE armed at 0020, A&F Team departed zero
Col Pinson notified TEXAS,
Next weather briefing at 0930,
1022 - TEXAS advised it was MAPIE=-1 again.
b.
All
All personnel notified. (FAP)
Following is a brief resume of UMBRELLA Hecovery Operations:
(1)
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51 out of 60 floating film packs were recovered.
(2) 20 out of 32 instrumented rocket nose cone cannisters were recovered.
(3)
All coracles were recovered.
(4)
Although the "hot water" sample obtained was not too good, there were
some good cloud samples obtained by the B-57 sampling aircraft.
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(5)
The target array ships are being towed into the lagoon alongside the
USS HOOPER ISLAND,
The Navy will delay contamination procedures until
all samples recovery operation are completed.
The radiation level is
low enough for all operations to be conducted, (FAP)
3. PERSONNEL:
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Col Lucke departed for BIKINI this afternoon on the Reflector Flight that
departed at 1529, (FAP)
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PUBLICATIONS:
The following letters were published and distributed this date:
2179-JFE
2180-JFE
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Frequency Allocation
Long Range Voice Communications
10 June 1958
10 June 1958
SHOTS and DEVICES:
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