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Weather Central and the Weather and fsa-qafe {slands; of a radio teletype
interospt of weather broadcasts from Tokyo, Pearl Harbor, Guam, and Truky
of radio facsimile intercept of Pearl Harbor and Tokyo faceimile broad~
castss of radio commnications from Weather Central to weather reconnais~
sance aircraft,
As explained in Chapter I of this history, aircraft operations con=
trol in the Eniwatok area was to be provided by the Eniwetok Air Operae
tions Center (MANHUNT),
During the last part of 1957, because of the
decommissioning of the USS Estes which had provided air operations control
in the Bikint area for Operation REDWING, the airoraft carrier USS Boxer
was made available for use during HARDTACK,
The Boxer, then, was to pro~
vide the Bikini Air Operations Center (BARXYMORE) for HARDTACK, and the
over-all air operations control system again was patterned on that en-
ployed for REDWING,
Operational control of HARDTACK aircraft was defined by the operation
plan as the exercise of control over all aircraft participating in each
shot event and individual or groups of aircraft operating within the Ente
wetok Control Area between events.
Operational control, thus, embraced
both over-all (area) control and direct (primary) control,
Area control was described as supervisory control of all aircraft
operating in the cniwetok Air Control Area, and was to be exercised through
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Specifically, the
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the Air Operations Center or Eniwetok Approach Control,