Single location for working on the nuclear devices.
It included spport
and shelter of the assembly teams, machine tool facilities, and hi<
explosive magazines at hand.
ence 5, p.
This was completed in March 1954
(Ref
2-199).
The devices were largely assembled in this area and then trans
by water to the test location.
A ramp was available within the ar
that an LST could take devices aboard by truck.
The barge-detonat
vices were assembled in a shelter
on the barge, whi
(called a cab)
moored in a specially constructed slip equipped with a large overh
Crane to handle heavy loads
(Figure 7).
After completion of work,
device barges were towed to their final destinations.
The Air Force component of the joint task force, based on Kwaj
previous operations, was moved to Enewetak for CASTLE.
This move
considerable improvement in the airfield that occupied the souther
of Enewetak Island.
looking west.
Figure 8 shows the extreme western end of the
The light area near the right wing of one of the pa
B-36s is a decontamination area that was constructed for CASTLE.
In the northeastern arc of the
GREENHOUSE (1951)
islands, a causeway constructed
to link Eleleron, Aomon, Bigire, and Lojwa islan
widened.
A major construction camp was built on the Lojwa end of
complex.
This required some work that is more properly described
following subsection
(p.
47)
on the radiological condition of Enew
Generally, the northern and eastern islands involved in the sh
shot-support activities had been graded extensively.
Japtan, lyin
across the Deep Passage from Parry, still contained a considerable
of coconut palms, pandanus, scaevola, and other tropical vegetatio
In October 1952, H&N, acting as the resident contractor for th
began construction of a camp on Eneman Island on the southern peri
Bikini.
An airstrip to serve Bikini-Enewetak traffic was also beg
neighboring islands of Aerokojlol and Aerokoj and on the causeway
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