An additional mission, designated "Wilson #3", was established to fly
the protective race-track pattern at 5,000 feet in conjunctio:. vith
"Wilson $2" at 10,000 feet.
"Wilson #3" was to hold in the race-track
until recalled to Eniwetok by the JTF 7 Radsafe Officer,
"Wilson #4" and
"Wilson #5" were set up for take-off as before, H}12 hours and H4#24 hours
respectively.
"Wilson #5" was cancelled and weather reconnaissance
missions were resumed on 28 March.
Early in the period TG 7.4 requested that WRECEP initiate a visual
reconnaissance progran to detect surface and undersea vessels,
All
sightings were to be reported to them via the normal weather report forns,
Reports were to include location type, track and speed of each vessel.
It should be noted here that photo, as well as visual reconnaissance is
part of the stated mission of WRECEP's parent organization and it vas.
recormended, early in the planning phase, that K-20 type cancras betade™
available so that WRECEP could include this fumction in its nission.
This
subject was never pursued however, with the result that photo reconnais-=
sance was not available for Castle operations,
It is recommended that
future planning nake this photo equipment available to WRECEP so that
this essential function of reconnaissanee can be accomplished.
Another problen encountered was the heavy contamination of aircraft
participating in shot dey missions,
These aircraft were out of commission
for periods up to five days due to contamination (ea total loss of seven-
teen_airgraft days).
This resulted in an overload of flying tine boing
placed on the remaining aircraft,
To alleviate this condition it was
deternined to initiate an earlier "turn-out"
procedure for ell cloud
trackers,
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