CHAPTER Ill, SECTION 5
each of the off-island camps was provided with
an 8-man tent for use as the Commissary issue
room and for storage space. There was 63,374
square feet of floor space in various warehouse
structures at Elmer, and 512 square feet at
Ursula. Figure 3-13 shows warehouses Nos. 501,
502 and 503 on site Elmer, which were constructed under project 3028, Item A-38-A. and
completed in January 1953. Figure 3-14 shows
the bin arrangement in the Plumbing Warehouse, Building No. 502.
Outside storage areas
follows:
Site
Site
Site
Site
Site
“
Site

were

provided

Tare
50.000
Charlie
15,000
Fox
15.000
Nan.
5.600
Elmer
368.670
(Classification yard 53.000
Ursula
..
. .6,3940

sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.
sq.

as

ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.
ft.

The outside storage area at Nan is shown
in Figure 3-15.
All incoming cargo was checked upon ar-

rival on shore. and the storage destination was
designated. Upon arrival at the storage area,
all boxes or containers were opened and con-

tents were checked against the packing list. If

discrepancies appeared, an Over, Short or Damage Report was initiated.

Figure 3-12.

Unloading Camco Trailers.
Eniwetok Lagoon

direct movement of refrigerated cargo from the
pier to the cold storage area was accomplished
by mobile forklifts.
Bulk fuel was delivered to the tank farms
located on sites Elmer. Fred and Sugar through
submarine piping systems. Tankers tied-up to
the POL mooring buoys which were located offshore at each tank farm. The submarine lnes
terrninated in hose which was connected by
chain to a third buov. This chain was used to
pick up ancl relay the hosefor all fueling oper-

ations.

Six warehouses, each 24’ x 60’ were constructed at Bikini Atoll for OPERATION
CASTLE. Four of these were located at site
Tare and one each at site Fox and site Charlie.
Of the four at site Tare. two were used for
general stores and two for subsistence stores.
The warehouses at sites Fox and Charlie were
used for general stores. At site Nan, part of
the electrical shop was utilized for general sturage. Since the more remote camps drew thcir

stores directly from Tare, no subsistence ware-

houses were erected at the other sites. However.

The Superintendent of Supply was furnished a list of the personnel who were authorized
tu sigh atvico wequimdigns and stivping requests.
To withdraw material from a warehouse, it was
necessary to present a stores requisition signed
bv an authorized person, For intevatoll or intraatoll cargo movement. a shipping request was
initiated

indicating

the use

feature at

desti-

nation. Interatoll scheduled shipments were generally made via LST, but, regardless of the type
of vessel, every interatoll ship movement necessary for anv reason was utilized ta the mavimum extent tor carrving carro between atolls.
The interatoll shipment of cargo is depicted
graphically in Figure 3-16.
JOBSITE MATERIAL AND PROPERTY
CONTROL
During the Operation, requisitions were
screened through Kardex records before materials were issucd, to insure that allocated materials were not being used for other purposes
or, if the materials were released for use, that
adequate replacements or substitutions were available or procured. Allocations of materials
were made against specific or general construc-

tion commitments until such time as definite
requirements were known, at which time they.
were posted to use features. Reviews were made
of stock levels against established re-order
points, and maintenance stock replacement requisitions were subsequently initiated for items

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