Col. Schnittke
MAYRae
1957
with:about‘he
or5‘piles ‘additional length. inside‘theLagoon:
He feols thatit willnot be difficult toclear the ‘coral -
“heads from the channelwithinthelagoon.”fo tuild the reef-"
.* °" ehannel and clear the Jagoon-channel, H&l wouldneedto.orrow;
_co'vam ESD from the Navy for about 6weeksin’the Fall of 1957,.:.:
if possible.He would‘alsoyee.110Uand2LOMsfrom theboat
-,,pool atBaivetek,plusabou AO$0.50.‘tons ofdynamite,de- -es
pending on the typeof.“eoral éncountered.«Ta"‘clearing.‘the ae
‘Channelhe wold:“dynamite“thecoral‘and‘dependuponthe “goouring
action ofthe water to. earry the coral out of the gharinel. There
Was & Task Force comment:that Navy
.
believesxemo
coralheads fromaShannel-within| he.Tagoon‘woul
the
ff¢%i2
Job. ; Howellbelieves that:clearance,
within;
- require onlyabout 3 weeks for thedatge’chan
some discussion of taking the device inca| :
X {e) Gen.
¢
Luedecke and Col. ‘Wignallatated that
rg
might be needed at. TAONGI, particularly for use‘by B-57D ©
x
‘samplers. The B-57Ds whichwould haveto flyinfrom:
:
“as the closest point would have alimitedamountof“fuel for”
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activity in the vicinity of TAONGI, and should an ‘emergency
.
oceur, might be forced to -landlocallyor.ths ‘grew:‘night.have...
to bail out.
in length.
The landing strip would be some 4500 te 5000 feet
Sam Howell stated that H&N might complete the ey
eon ir they could start tomorrow but that it would be
doubtful even then. H&N would have to establish a camp on.
TAONGI which would require buildinga channel foran LST,|The
- Gamp would probably be on Sibylla Islandandthe ‘Fanwaywould
probably start on this island, Teget an. LSTuiathe lagoo
would require a channel about 300 feet, wide by17. to’ "feet
deep, Howell stated that acattsonal
fantswould not:“speedMp.
2.Th 0MBS
“ee”
the construction, thatthe limitationSas
some discussion of the results which1ti
beAchieved with©
Jae a. such an emergency strip,Col, Parsons‘statedthat landing aBoe
.
B-57 on a short strip, such as ‘that beingdiscussed, would be: :
essentially a cdntrolled crash,”andtheairplaneprobably - “
ould not be flowoff3thestrip
p:
_ Fecoveredbyships”,
caeSussion.
patwould, have to be >
wal hfollowed indicated that
athe landing:
g strip‘would‘Hobbe‘Poqatred.for’HARDTACK , “and that.
lonbef 3
a e
.
for the Seeretione itPAONGTts:4 hene
additional stations.™The stationsne
bez
.. and wouldbe located Rast ofTAQNGIs:;,Then
stations doesn't necessarily’‘yépresent.& 1
/
- tional ships for this taskalone because Task, Group 7.3. will.
fit out security and other destroyers (DD). to make weather -
observations, so that ships may beused as “dual-purpose.‘The a
—. donereyer Weather stat 19h
CREE
omplish essentiallythe same
.,weather observation and
as can.a limited ‘Land ’;;
“weather station. Present estimate is that4 or 5: additiona Dos
will he reauired for al]purposesifTAONGI_is used,.
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