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For June, mission requirements for D minus two (2) and D minus one (1)
days remained at. Three (3) per day.
During this period, four (l) missions
were flown on two (2) days, three (3) per day on sixteen days, two (2) per
day on eleven (11) days and one (1) per day once.
During the month of July mission requirements for D minus two (2) and
D minus one (1) days remained at three (3) per day.
weather tracks were flown.
During this period 79
Operation NEVSREEL at Johnston Island required
two (2) weather tracks per day beginning 25 July.
To meet requirements at
toth Eniwetok and Johnston, it was decided to move the periodic maintenance
sspacility of the Weather Reconnaissance Element to Hickam AFB and to stage
aircraft there from Eniwetok,
One (1) aircraft was to depart Eniwetok
dsi’y ana give weather reports for that area on its outbound track.
In-
hounc toe Hickam, it would give a report on Johnston Island area weather.
A flight on a reverse track would depart Hickam daily for Eniwetok, giving
,". voyalved daily coverage.
On 26 July, however, it was decided that
“eoatnas relornaissance flights were no longer needed for Eniwetok.
Between
that date and 1 August, all the wB-50 aircraft ceparted for Hickam,
All
fucvher NEWSREEL weather reconnaissance was performed from Hickam AFB.
Daring HARDTACh, the ‘leather Reconnaissance Element flew 3696
hovrs and 33 missions.
Gf these 324 were weather reconnaissance missions
sen (LC) were cloud sampler missions.
For a complete resume of WB-50 flyt
uns activitiess, seé Figure 2,
A tiehiy trained organization of specialists in the Weather Centeral
Element collected weather data from a variety of sources, analyzed this
dats end with a high degree of accuracy furnished to Commander, Joint Task
Force SEVEN the weather forecasts vital to the successful firing of a
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