CHAPTER Ii, SECTION 4 As this crater area was required for OPERATION CASTLE, it was necessary to fill it, primarily for topographic rather than contamination reasons. ENGINEERING. Field Engineering prepared two field sketches. CONSTRUCTION. The Ruby Crater Fill was started on 15 February 1953 and completed on 13 May 1953. Figure 2-26 in Section 2 shows this crater as of 25 March. CONTRACT ITEM NUMBER A-33 MISCELLANEOUS CONSTRUCTION SITES VARIOUS GENERAL. This contract item number covers 61 Miscellaneous Construction jobs on thesites uy of Eniwetok and Bikini Avolls that were necessary for the support of the Operation. Some of the larger jobs consisted of AVR facilities at site Tare, Blast Damage Repair at sites Elmer and Fred, Landing Pier at site Yvonne, Typhoon Hester Clean-up on sites Elmer and Tare, additional camp facilities, contaminated storage area and storage and dock area grading at Elmer, and minor rehabilitation to various facilities. This construction was necessary for maintenance and rehabilitation of existing facilities to be used for support of the Operation. ENGINEERING. Field Enginecring processed approsimately 45 field sketches for the execution of this work. CONSTRUCTION, Work was continuous. Bg, ee yO ~ ce Mee onde Figure 2-44. Peter-Oboe Airstrip Completed Page 2-71