B,
SZJURITY PATROLS, SURFACT AND AIR
Not applicable during this reporting period.
C. INTRA-ATOLL AND INTER-ATOLL TRANSTORTATION
The Task Group Boat Pool (TU 132.32.1) was moved to the Forward Area
in two vessels, the USS OAK HILI (1SD-7) and USS TORTUGA (1SD~26), both
arriving at Enivetok on 31 July 1952. ‘he OAK HILL reported to the Task
Group as mother ship for the Boat Pool and activated the Service and
a
Harbor Control Element (TF 132.32) of which the ‘oat Pool is a Task Unit.
Five (5) 100, (5) LCM, and three (3) ICPI were lifted in the OAK HILL
and TORTUGA. Other craft for the Boat Fool (14 LCM, 1 LOPL) were lifted
by MSTS shipping and most of them were at Eniwetok on arrival of the
OAK HILL.
There was 1 AVR yet to come.
One AVR had arrived but was not
yet fully operable due delay in receiving electronic equipment.
The I1CU's and boats lifted in the ISD's were made operable immediately.
Few, if any, repairs to boats drawn from storage had been made prior to
their assi mment to the Task Group, and considerable time and effort in
the forward erea was required to render them operational.
Boat Pool operations in intra-atoll trans ortation developed rapidly
durinz the ‘last half of this period.
However it is believed thet details
_ of operation can best be covered in one installment and wild be so cover7
ed in the next report.
At this stage it can be noted that one concept of Task Force Boat
Pool operatichs had been changed.
Originally, as noted inthe first —
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