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Dear Al,
A few items have come up since I returned to Washington about whith -
I would like to get your reaction and comments. In the first place,
AFSWP has nominated Colonel H. K. Gilbert as Commander TU 13. While he
is in the desert on the UPSHOT/KNOTHOLE series, Captain N. E. Kingsley,
Secondly, my office is arranging a Special Air Mission to Eniwetok
in June. We expect to leave here the morning of & June and pick up you,
Bill Ogle, and others before flying on to Hawaii. We will be gone about
10 days, including three days in Eniwetok and a day and a half in Hawaii.
General Clarkson is very amcious to have you along when he orients the
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as his deputy, is handling all matters pertaining to TU 13. As far as
General Clarkson is concerned, Gilbert and Kingsley are satisfactory;
however, he wants to know if the two men are acceptable to you.
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new task group commanders on CASTLE requirements in the Forward Area,
Please let me know as soon as possible whether this date is agreeable
with you and who, besides the task group comnanders, you feel should go
along.
Perhaps Dr. York?
Also, please look over this memorandum Ace Pate passed to General
Clarkson pertaining to weather phenomena and let me know your reaction
to it. You will recall that I discussed this idea with you during IVY.
I agree with Ace that, if we can adopt the concept, the importance of
Wind direction will become less critical.
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There's no great hurry on this
And now that everything seems to be going ao smothly at Nevada,
perhaps you would like to wrestle with a couple CASTLE problems for
diversion.
tM
Now that Bikini becomes the center of five-sixths of all our acti-
vities, Eniwetok diminishes in importance as far as military support
problems are concerned. Changes in military support concepts may need a
little re-thinking in light of recent changes in shot sites and numbers.
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