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~ay 2 Friday. Alamogordo. Assembled apparatus to go back to Watson Labs. Phil and Bill
Godbee out to Tularosa and picked up all GRJ equipment. Duff, Mosher, Dubell and I went
out to Tularosa Bombing Site #2 and shot off 2 100# bombs, using the TNT blocks alongside.
All went off OK. Duff got box caps for use. Will cancel 500# bomb order and use just TNT
blocks if possible. All equipment loaded on plane this pm.
~ay J-4 Sat, Sun. Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps
men along. Stopped at El Paso and went over to Juarez for pm. Left El Paso about 8 pm.
Landed in Scott Field about 4 and found weather bad in East. Stayed at BOQ until 10. Left
about 11 and arrived in Middletown, Olmsted Field, about 6. Weather bad in Newark. Stayed
in Olmsted Field BOQ
l~ay 5 ~on. Left Olmsted Field at 7 am. In .Newark about 8. Trucks in about 11. Loaded equip-
ment and sent to Oakhurst. Arrived Oakhurst about 230. Chantz left for Frenchtown fm Newark
~ay 6 Tues. Oakhurst. Worked with Vivian and Eileen on their calculations. Eileen working
on several? Feb 20 rocket and Vivian on last flights from Oakhurst.
May 7 Wed Oakhurst. Conference am - Dr Delassos? and Leonard from UCLA. Went over T-21
calibration they had - also the results from Alamogordo. Conference pm with Mr--- from
AMC Wright Field. Flight scheduled for tomorrow, balloons with instruments going up at
Bethlehem- B-17 following balloons with recording equipment and B-29 dropping bombs east-
ward from Atlantic City.
May 8 Thurs. Oakhurst. Scheduled balloon flight this morning at 730. Mears and men from
NYU at Bethlehem with balloons. Trouble with winds and instruments did not go up. Peoples,
Moulton over to Middletown with recording equipment on B-17 following balloons. Had no
trouble following them. B-29 started dropping bombs near Atlantic City about 8. Trouble
with oil leak in a motor and B-29 had to jettison the bombs and return. Recorded at Oak-
hurst with Brush and GRJ. Working -today with Eileen on Feb 20 rocket - final ave velocity
data
Hay 9 Fri Oakhurst. \forked on calculations - bombing runs and V2 tests Feb 20. Took sleeper
out of NYC for Canton tonight.
May 10 Sat. Canton. Steve and Esther up from Syracuse for weekend.
May 11 Sun. At home. Took sleeper out of Canton for NYC
May 12 Mon. Arrived NYC and caught 0940 out to Asbury Park - then to OakhUDst. Saw Mr Emmons
of NYU this pm regarding future flights both here and in Alamogordo.
May 13 Tues. Chantz and I went down to Cape Nay today with staff car and driver. Located
suitable site for bomb recordings on road between Cape May Court House and Goshen. Surveyed
out 5 pickup locations and took solar observations. Back in AP about 0800 pm
May 14 Wed - Finished checking up with Chantz and Oliva in regard·_ to bombing runs on east
coast. Run scheduled for 9 and 12 on Friday. Packed up all equipment from computing office
to go to Alamogordo. Checked transit and rod to go to Alamogordo. Jappett?, new computer,
in today. Started him out on work Stepanoff was doing.
May 15 Thurs Oakes, Stevens?, Oliva and myself to Fort Dix this am early. Loaded up C-54
when it arrived, with 229 boxes of TNT, about 12,000#. Carroll - pilot and Hoffman- copilot.
Mears, Vivian and Eileen arrived laterand we took off Fort Dix about 11 JO, EDST. Arrived in
Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to stop account of
weather conditions. Stayed overnight at Hotel Supples.
May 16 Fri C-54 arrived at Alamogordo from Big Spring about 930 MST. All TNT unloaded and
put in dump. Vivian and Eileen got rooms at girls dorm, Mears and I at BOQ 25. Went over
future program with Edmondson, Reynolds and Godbee. Vivian and Eileen in:office this pm.
Have office in Watson Lab Bldg. Checked out ready to go to Silver City Monday. Got car ready
and gas for car. Checked transit and made from field wire chain for 125 meters. Mears and
Thompson down to critique at White Sands and to see Capt Smith of Weather Service.
~:ay 17 Sta. Alamogordo. Vivian, Eileen and I worked on May 15 rocket data. Plotted up azim-
uth angle against elevation angle for Dona and White Sands stations. Plotted azimuth against
time for Dona site.
May 18 Sun. Alaomgordo. Worked on Dona record, May 15 rocket. Checked through picks - plotte
elevation angle against time, calculated elevation and distance from bombing site using
straight line plane between launching site and point of impac~.
May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0745 in weapon carrier for Silver City. Arrived at
Giles National Forest Station about 1230. Got permission for site there and Bent along
valley 16 miles, then back 5 and located site. Surveyed location, dug holes and strung wire.
Back to ranger station and located ourselves on range map. Left Bayard about 630 pm. Back
at Alamogordo about 1045 pm. Edmondson and Godbee out to record WAC Corporal at Dona site