result was tke decision to change over from. blim.ps to P2V's. 



A meeting on the 19th of Aagust marked another milestone in the step 

 by step progress we were making. Marks, Ronne, Whitney and Walden 

 from Woods Hole, Cdr. Leffen, LCdrs. Finlayson, Docktor, ajid Price 

 from NADC, two representatives from Hydro, Pierson fromi NYU, and my- 

 self from ONR attended^ and Cdr. Wood, Cdn. Hoel, LCdr. Champlin, 

 L Cdr, HoUingshead and Lt. jg Chandler acted as hosts at NADU. Thanks 

 mainly to the staff at NADU, a detailed program for the accomplishment of 

 the operation was worked out. The participants were assigned various 

 tasks and dates were set up for tentative completion of various phases of the 

 project. 



As a result of the conference my tasks were to arrange for the develop- 

 ment of the film at Bermuda and Anacostia, to get official authorization 

 through BuAer for the installation of the cameras on the P2V's by the NADG 

 and to get the necessary films and magazines (also through BuAer) sent to 

 WHOI. 



A date was set for the test flight, 27 September, and a target date for 

 the actual photographs at sea, 1 October. Considering the many things that 

 still needed doing and the arrangements that had to be made, this was push- 

 ing things just a bit. But to delay longer would have put us into the winter 

 months with less chance of getting just the right meteorological conditions. 



On 25 October a letter was written to the Naval Photographic Center, 



NAS Anacostia, asking themi to develop our black and v^te and color film 



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