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THE STAFF MEETS. Smooth functioning of the 

 vast Crossroads organization was assured by 

 weekly staff meetings. A thousand-page Opera- 

 tion Plan was drawn up and printed specifying 

 the plans and responsibilities of all participating 

 groups. ABOVE. Seated, left to right: Major Gen- 

 eral W. E. Kepner, Deputy Task Force Commander 

 for Aviation; Vice Admiral Blandy, Commander; 

 Rear Admiral W. S. Parsons, Deputy Task Force 

 Commander for Technical Direction; Major Gen- 

 eral A. C. McAuliffe, Ground Forces Adviser. 

 Rear: Brigadier General T. S. Power, Assistant 

 Deputy Task Force Commander for Aviation; Brig- 

 adier General K. P. McNaughton, Captain C. H. 



Lyman, Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations; 

 Colonel T. J. Betts, Assistant Chief of Staff for 

 Intelligence; Colonel D. H. Blakelock, Assistant 

 Chief of Staff for Logistics; Dr. Ralph A. Sawyer, 

 Technical Director; Captain Robert Brodie Jr., 

 Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel, and Captain 

 G. M.. Lyon, Safety Adviser. 



OPPOSITE. LST I 108 moves outrigger canoes 

 from Bikini to Rongerik, while the native owner 

 watches anxiously, wondering whether Uncle Sam's 

 sailors will handle his primitive craft as well as they 

 do their own. These sailing canoes are used for 

 hundred-mile trips in the open sea from atoll to 

 atoll. 



