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INSIDE A GREEN HORNET. Interior view of a 

 big Douglas C-54 plane of the so-called "Green 

 Hornet" line used to transport personnel and 

 freight from the United States to Kwajalein, 250 

 miles from Bikini. The original "Green Hornets" 

 were the planes of the Manhattan Engineer Dis- 

 trict's private airline used to shuttle key personnel 

 to Tinian Island in the Marianas at the time of the 

 atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. The new 

 "Green Hornet" line's 12 ships were in constant 

 trek between Fairfield Suisun, California, and Kwa- 



jalein, with one or more trips scheduled daily. 

 Usually the passenger limit was 26 persons. To 

 the hundreds of air travellers, these specks on the 

 global map became trite names: Hamilton Field 

 and Fairfield Suisun in California; Hickam Field, 

 Hawaii; Johnson Island, the Pacific's famed "un- 

 sinkable aircraft carrier"; and Kwajalein, end of 

 the hop and 4,200-odd miles, or roughly 23 hours 

 flying time, from San Francisco. Over these great 

 sea distances the airline operated for months, and 

 without accident. 



