a J3~1=29 RAC: 16 Jamary 1957 Ch, yes, you would never bring that LSD into the lagoon. _ GT33INS: You couldn't? FELT: How much does that ship draw? RCs About Lh, 19 feet, deosn't it. FELT: The Dog boat? WCKE: More than that. RIC: If you ahoot sonething like “tike on the reef, and get a crater about a mile in diameter, which is about what ve got, this is hardly manguvering room for the Doz beat. JI don't think they would come inte a hole and try and turn around and come back out. FELT: Ws are not going to settle this until we talk te the Captain. I think wo should assumethat it is probably going to be a little nore difficult to offeload a barge in the Taong!t area than it was in the 3ikini area, GI3B8T%S: thether he goes into the crater ar not? FELT: I am not sure that that would make all the difference, If you Mire a snot and breech the reef, so that it is open to the saa but still does not afford a let of protection, this is still am improverzent. RIC s | Taere is one thing that is bothering me about this firing a shot and ‘sreeching the raaf or placing it in the north end of the atoll; if you get permission to use Taongl, eventually you will go to shore-based facilities. FELTs Ws will fire it at Eniwetok, RHC s Wall, maybe so, but I have got a hunch that if you put that alpha station as far up on the northern land mass as you can, and operate with the renge we have used in the past for these things, you don't came close, to. the reef, anyway. GI33INS: I agree. RiC: J as wondering if it is really sensible to talk about firing up in 5005 0b - 3- qa el,