BOMBS AT BIKINI 



Plan of Operation on A-Day 



Plan of Operation on B-Day 



Photographic Plan 



Salvage Plan 



Army Ground Group Plan 



Public Information Plan 



Target Layout Test A 



Target Layout Test B 



Oceanographic Survey Plan 



Harbor Information 



Aerological Plan 



Boat Pool Plan 



Typhoon Plan 



Ship Preparation Plan 



Reboarding and Inspection Plan 



Air-Sea Rescue Plan 



Nonparticipating Observers Plan 



Rongerik Evacuation Plan 



Reports 



Drone Boat Plan 



Several of the annexes, which themselves contained 

 voluminous appendices and even appendices to appen- 

 dices, were many hundreds of pages in length, and con- 

 tained a wealth of charts, graphs, etc.* Civilians or 

 others who may have expected the Task Force to be 

 directed by a multitude of impromptu decisions made 

 in the field were impressed with the completeness with 

 which problems were anticipated and categorically 



* The Operation Plan was so complete that the writer, who 

 studied it with some care, had throughout the Operation the im- 

 pression of attending a good Technicolor motion picture of a re- 

 cently-read hook. 



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