CHAPTER I, SECTION 1
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Figure No. 1-1.
Fred Runway — Looking Northeast.
indicated, and measures were immediately put
into effect to accomplish this prior to another
Operation. A Class “A” Print Shop was authorized on 3 January 1958 and wasin full operation
by early April. A Photographic Laboratory was
constructed in the new H&N Administration
Building and was completely equipped to provide
mission in HARDTACK,and presented a challenge which was accepted and accomplished with
a minimum of time lost. No delay of test events
was occasioned through the inability of H&N
to meet the readiness dates requested by other
elements of the Task Force.
full coverage of all phases of the Operation, in-
CHRONOLOGICAL REVIEW.
SPHERE OF OPERATIONS.
Upon the completion of Operation REDWINGin August 1956, Scientific Stations and
other structures were rolled up, secured, operated
cluding support to the Class “‘A”’ Print Shop.
The sphere of operations for HARDTACK
was expanded to include not only Johnston
Island, but also new construction on Truk,
Rongelap, Ponape, and Nauru Atolls, 660, 280,
370, and 770 nautical miles respectively from
Eniwetok Atoll. In all, the off-atoll sites included
Weather Stations at Utirik, Kusaie, Kapingamarangi, Wotho, and Ujelang. Construction and
service activities encompassed 33 islands in Eni-
on a minimum scale, or abandoned to place EPG
on a stand-by status. Also during this period
all property and equipment returned as excess
from off-island sites were processed and stored
against future needs.
Items were completely
dismantled, sandblasted, painted, re-assembled,
and treated with preservative material as indica-
ted in each case. Routine maintenance measures
wetok Atoll and 20 islands in Bikini Atoll. The
were performed on special and critical items of
re-usable equipment which could be maintained
for the closest coordination of effort between
Jobsite and Home Office to accomplish H&N’s
Periodic inspections were also performed on all
mothballed facilities to ensure that preservative
complexity and magnitude of the program called
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more economically outside of a mothball status.