PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED TWX indicated that SA-16 aifcraft could be made available, upon request, by Headquarters USAF, This information was passed on to Joint Task Force SEVEN who officially requested the SA-16 eircraft be furnished by Hcadquarters USAF for the duration of the mission. Tho PBN aircraft which wore originally scheduled to supplant C-47 airlift to Bikini were used during the carly period of March in checking the atolls southcast of Bikini for fall-out and for helping in evacuating Air Force personnel and natives from these atolls, With the contamination of the OBOE strip at Bikini denying its use and considering a request from the Commander at Kwajalein to aid in a search for a British Canberra which was lost in that area, a C-47 aircraft from Task Group 7.4 was scent to Kwajalein on TDY to aid in the search. This aircraft was returned to Eniwetok on the 12th of March after the Bikini C-47 airlift was re-established. On previous operations the sampling effort hed grown continuously up to a point which indicated that cloud samples were being procured within the Capabilitics of present-day Air Force aircraft. In order to assure that the Air Task Group was doing all it could with equipment available in supporting Task Group 7.1 in cloud sample collection, on the third of March wrote a letter to of Task Group 7.1 request- ing his opinion as to the quality of the cloud sampling effort bcing provided. He asked specific questions concerning adequacies of aircraft, quality of the crew training, positioning, ete.” 3 reply to this letter indicated that, with the cquipment available, the sampling effort had been most satisfactory. Le TG #3-2862S. 5. TG #3-3114SRD. In reply he further indicated Zi,