=CONBeENTIAL nuclear test series, Over a sustained period of five (5) months, these specialists provided this information. A lion's share of the data from which the Weather Central made its forecasts was furnished by other Task Group 7.4 Elements concerned with the gathering of weather information, The Weather Reporting Element with eight (8) island stations outside the Eniwetok Proving Groud, as well as two (2) from within, functioned smoothly in its data gathering responsibility. The Weather Reconnaissance Element with its ten (10) WB-50 aircraft flew 32) weather reconnaissance missions and 3696 hours over an area reaching from Hawaii to points west of Guam, — its responsibility to the network weather information gathering, 4g covering over 10,000,000 square miles of the Central Pacific in fulfilling