BIKINI OVERTURE 



■ 1 Club (20 ft. X 200 ft.) for officers and 

 civilians 

 1 Club (16 ft. X 300 ft.) for enlisted men 

 5 Concrete basketball courts 

 10 Volley ball courts 



4 Softball diamonds 



1 Trap-shooting range 



1 Concrete athletic court (100 ft. x 100 ft.) 



26 Dressing huts 



1 Water distillation and distributing system 



1 Shore patrol and dispensary building 



3 Life-guard platforms 



1 Seaplane landing ramp 



2 Swim floats 



7 Pontoon causeways 



1 Air-coordination station 



3 Construction battalion shops 



1 Sonobuoy work shop 



10 Wave-height measurement piles 

 14 Shallow-water moorings for evacuation 

 barges and other small craft 



2 Radio beacons 



5 25-man camps 



1 Aerological station 



This construction was done by the 53rd Naval Con- 

 struction Battalion. The first group of the Construc- 

 tion Battalion to arrive at Bikini was a survey party 

 which arrived on March 11. By March 20 the entire 

 Battalion had arrived. 



To reduce the insect nuisance, Bikini and Enyu 

 Islands were sprayed every few weeks with DDT; 



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