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on formalities,
Samvel asks that the AFSWC planners get back to work on the more extended
operation that is beginning to take shape and on which they did so much
preparation when it was known as Blue Straw.
Samuel offers to act as the
eyes and cars in Washington for AFSWC to inform them of anything that may
have animplication onthe Air Force role.
He notes that he has been
infor med that the AFSWC staff will soon be augmented as they have requested.
Attached to this cover letter is a first cut at a current status report for JTF8.
Since this status report contains mostly the same information I have
documented elsewhere, I will note only those items that look somewhat new.
As for the status of Christmas Island he notes its desirability but also the
- improbability of having it and states, ' naturally we must see if time and
facilities will permit us to establish the Eniwetok type control center there
with backup in the form of an aircraft carrier.
As to the overall picture,
however, I feel that we will in great part have to look at Christmas as a
distant Bikini with Hawaii substituting as the Eniwetok type home base."
As for Jarvis, he notes that one of the thoughts as to getting this Island
for a land base shop is that it is close enough to Christmas for sampler
aircraft support.
For conjugate point measurements, he states that
AFSWC must look into the minimum air support requirements in the
Samoa-Fiji area.
As for the possibilities for the air drop program he states
the following '' because of increased requirement for diagnostic data not
programed in Blue Straw, detailed inquiry into capability for precision open
sea drops is mandatory.
Weare currently suggesting as possible alternates
a sea born control center, a special control radar for the drop aircraft,
the positioning of precise deep anchored,
and
survivable radar offset floats."