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not come so got rideinto Army base. Phil in later. ' 7ery windy for recording.
Feb 19 '·Ted, Alamorgordo. Got radios from 'iatrus of Signal ~orps and got trip tickets for
tomorrow, Ra~ test rP.cords on ~ubi con at both sites and checked e·rerythir.g ready for
tomorrow.
?eb 20 Thurs. Alamogordo. Cut early to station at Tower. Left Phil off there and went over
to Dona Site. Rocket delayed from 10 to 1119. Both stations got good recordings except
1 9T-NS on both \-lG. :·!orked on GR8 records tonight.
:Ce b 21 Fri. Alamogordo. :lent to l,Jhite Sands Proving Grounds with Fri tchard I ragnir? I Sol
& Phil this morning for 'T-2 critiques, 0930 to 1100. Canister from rocket unpacked? about
40 miles up and finally found this pm between El Paso and Alamogordo. :lo transportation
back to NJ yP-t. 'llorked on GR- J records today
Feb 22 SatL Alamogordo. 'iorked on data all day today. Correlated between the ~ower and Dona
sites for se·reral sources. 'o!orked total travel times for asce~ts both ;)or.a and ?ower and
got average velocities up to about 65 kms, 'relocity increases from about 40 kms up to
60. Average velocity at 65 kms is about J20 meters per sec.
Feb 23 Sun. Worked on detailing record from GRJ, .Added more and made 'I'-D move up to .
75 kms~ giving velocity of about 420 m/sec at top.Phil and Sal went out and picked up equip-
ment - T-791s and GR8 and checked all pickups.
Feb 24 Mon. Alamogordo. '.faited for air transportation today but none available and may not
be any until Thurs at latest, Worked on V-2 recordings, frequency and characteristic anal-
ysis - T-J. Sal and Phil out to Site at Dona and recorded WAC Corporal at 1400. Got some
waves,J,pJ about 7 .minutes after it had letio. grou,nd •.., , •.,. .: ., , . , ;J.- ·~ .• •
Feb 25 Tues. Alamogordo. )~ent out to Tower Site, surveyed in #6, took down shelter. To Dona
Site, set up GRJ in shelter, surveyed in #6, went to launching site, about 2 -3 miles NW
launching area. Phil went in to '·TSPR and got permission, Sal and I surveyed 1 site for use
with WAC Corporal.
Feb 26 ~led. Alamogordo. \forked on GR8 records of 20 Feb V-2 rocket. This am Phil and Sal set
up Sounding? site for tomorrow's W.A.C •. ! left 7 p~ - .C-47 Hoffman,,Missinger: Pilot, co-
pilot, .arrived in Newark 9am.
Feb 27 Thurs. Arrived)Newark 9 am. Lewis, Duff,Mosher a request? in from Y.iddletown - on
way to WL to conference and I rode in with them. Conference re future missions. Conference
PM Trakowski 1 Peoples, Rying & mysel;f regarding future operations
Feb 28 Fri. Oakhurst. Ewing in from NYC. Nent over Alamogordo results with Ewing, Peoples
and Trakowski. Out to Peoples to~ight
fo!arch 1 Saturday. Asbury Park
March 2 Sunday Oakhurst. worked on calculations for wind translations.
March 3 Monday.Oakhurst. Postponed Alamos.~:rd.qdt:r~P.i ut\1-.11~ tomor.rcn~ •• g\':t.hlpg,,~pg~er equip-
ment for Alamogordo. Thompson going also to get information on bombing runs? there, Worked
on calcqlation_!S 'from Y-.2 .. ~' . , . · , ; · . . . , • ' ;.; ·" .• ~ . ·• ·t \
March 4 Tuesday, Thompson and I left staff car about 930, arrived at Newark 104o. Loaded up
B-25 wittt .equiPIJ!ent and left ,about 1230. :~;topped at Middletown and ,picked· up ·r84\io. Stopped
at Scott Field & Tinker Field for gas. Arrived at Alamogordo 2 am. Crew B-25:Hoffman,
DeTurk, Hancock
(~arch 6 .Thursday. Alamogordo. Snowing - rocket flight called off until tomorrow. Chantz
out to Tower Site and brought in batteries. Sal and I checked low frequency equipment and
went out to Tularosa site with it this pm. Ready to use on 1 sec galv on Rubicon drum
1 I'arch 5 Wecinesday. Alamogordo. Ghantz, 'I'hompson ar.d myself out to Tulerosa si.te and surv-
~ eyed out X setup and ran out wires. Back about 2. Oliva working on check of T21s. Worked
on radio and T21s until tonight
Karch 7 Friday. Alamogordo. At 8 am Pritchard got word rocket would go off between 10)4
and 1200. Phil and Sal went out to Dona and Launching Sites with weapon carrier. Hoffman,
DeTurk and Thompson out with them in staff car. I took Jeep and went out to Tularosa site.
Rocket off at.112J. Got recording on GR8 but not time for Rubicon record. Phil and Sal got
OK eecords from their sites. Thompson reported on bombing sites for runs and met and talked
with Ordnance Officer. Left Alamogordo 845 pm , B-25 with Hoffman, DeTurck. Motor trouble
on way and reached? Tinker Field 1200 with cylinder broken.
March 8 Sat. Hoffman wired Alamogordo and caught Nanjak & Schneider (P4)? before leaving
for Florida. They changed their route and landed at Tinker Field, O.C. 535. Trouble with
their oil gauge and the trouble not repaired until 10 am. left Tinker ~ield 10 and landed
at Patterson. Off from patterson to Olmsted, Olmsted at 9pm. I stayed there overnight.