CHAPTER If, SECTION 4 te 27> <2 =| aed» day “ya a+ : . ead SS Te ae oT ee Figure 2-66. Air Force Warehouse - Site Fred clearing completed and helio mat installed on site How. CONTRACT ITEM NUMBERS A-68-C THRU 4-68.35 - J.T. F. CONSTRUCTION SITE FRED GENERAL. Work under this Contract Item consisted of construction required at site Fred, principaliy by Task Groups 7.2 and 7.4, in support of the Operation and embraced some 31 separate items, the larger of which consisted of Suppiy Warehouse, eight wood prefab buildings, eight steel prefab buildings, Airfield Improvements, Parachute Drying Tower and RePack Building, floor slab for Hangar Building, modification of Building 15 Cryptovault, Instrumentation Building, Photo Lab, Depot Supply Building, extend Air Operations Building, and miscellaneous construction. This construction, in conjunction with Contract Item A-40, enabled the Army and Air Force to maintain their headquarters at Fred in support of the Operation instead of basing part at Kwajalein and part at Fred as was donein past Operations. These facilities are shown in Figure 1-3. ENGINEERING. Field Engineering made the investigations, reports and surveys of the various existing facilities to be rehabilitated. All necessary drawings were prepared at Jobsite. CONSTRUCTION This construction was continuous as required from 1 June 1953 to 30 April 1954. Figure 2-66 shows Building 638, Air Force Warehouse on Fred (Item A-68.1) as completed on 10 February 1954. Figure 2-67 is a similar illustration. Figure 2-68 notes the Fao Figure 2-67. Building 638 - Site Fred Page 2-83