=COs ENT] AL. , For June, mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1) days remained at. Three (3) per day. During this period, four (l) missions were flown on two (2) days, three (3) per day on sixteen days, two (2) per day on eleven (11) days and one (1) per day once. During the month of July mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1) days remained at three (3) per day. weather tracks were flown. During this period 79 Operation NEVSREEL at Johnston Island required two (2) weather tracks per day beginning 25 July. To meet requirements at toth Eniwetok and Johnston, it was decided to move the periodic maintenance sspacility of the Weather Reconnaissance Element to Hickam AFB and to stage aircraft there from Eniwetok, One (1) aircraft was to depart Eniwetok dsi’y ana give weather reports for that area on its outbound track. In- hounc toe Hickam, it would give a report on Johnston Island area weather. A flight on a reverse track would depart Hickam daily for Eniwetok, giving ,". voyalved daily coverage. On 26 July, however, it was decided that “eoatnas relornaissance flights were no longer needed for Eniwetok. Between that date and 1 August, all the wB-50 aircraft ceparted for Hickam, All fucvher NEWSREEL weather reconnaissance was performed from Hickam AFB. Daring HARDTACh, the ‘leather Reconnaissance Element flew 3696 hovrs and 33 missions. Gf these 324 were weather reconnaissance missions sen (LC) were cloud sampler missions. For a complete resume of WB-50 flyt uns activitiess, seé Figure 2, A tiehiy trained organization of specialists in the Weather Centeral Element collected weather data from a variety of sources, analyzed this dats end with a high degree of accuracy furnished to Commander, Joint Task Force SEVEN the weather forecasts vital to the successful firing of a COPIED/DOE LANL RC SL, 7h — CONFI re {AL =