ah we mea ays’. . “Snenam SUBJZCT: Report on Trip to Forward Area clear that he was the author of only the first two chapters of the report; that he desired to go on record as such, ani as well, to state what the several serious editing errors were that appeared in the finished report. Dr. Palmer wrote a memo to Dr. Graves on this matter. Dr. Graves is to follow up on this go as to make it a matter of official record. a. Weatherwise, the time spent with the people at Detachment 1, AFC2C was the mst fruitful. Detailed and comprehensive discussions were had with Dr. Palmer, Col Dunean and other menbers of the detachment. The complete course of indoctrination of the Weather Central personnel was agreed upon, and it is my fecling that it is an extremely well thought out and comprehensive course. It was concluded by all concerned that due to the fact that all shots were during darimess, prior to day break, it would be unnecessary to perform an upwind special weather reconnaissance flight just prior to each detonation. It was felt that better utilization could be gained by performirg the normal routine weather reconnaissance missions of two flights per day throughout the entire period of operations; at least this procedure will be used at first. This was the particular recommendation of Dr. Palmer since he felt that the value to be gained from a reconnaissance mission during the hours of darkness was questionable and dubious. ee hr. Frank A, Metcalf, High Comaissioner, Trust Territories Islands of the :acifie was visited concerning establishment of our outlying weather stations on islands under his control; he gave us complete and unstintod assist— ance and cooperation. He was so very cooperative that upon reachincs the outlying islinds, it was found that there were feu problems remainin” to be solved, at least coordination-wise, f. Courtesy visits were paid to Staff Aerolorist, CI:.Crac, CIC, Fleet weather Central at Pearl Harbor and hr, Gordon D. Carturight, 01C of Honolulu eeather bureau. hr. Cartwright is in charge of the presently established »@ather curecau Station at Ponape. He could foresee no problems ir: azvain estab= lishin= our stations for CASTLE, He did sugcest that i visit Dr. Reichelderfer, Chicf, U. S. \eather Bureau here in ..ashington, concerning delineation of responsibilities and disposition of observations during our tenure at ronape. & The 57th Strat Recon Squadron had no major problems to discuss. Reconnaissance tracks to be used during the operation were discussed and decided upon by all concerned. These tracks will be considerably simplified in com parison to those used in previous tests, h. All personnel at the Naval Station, Kwajalein were most cooperative and helpful. Admiral Clarke and Capt Sooy practically placed all the facilities of their station at our disposal, They furnished transportation to all the outlying islands in a most commendable manner.