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 45 h-