If the sea Is not too rough. The motor we received with the boat 
is very old and is not working properly. It now appears that we 
made a wise choice in purchasing a new motor for the boat. The 
project leader and the party traveled to town for final procurement 
of material; an outboard motor oil which we must supply for both 
motors, picked up our specially made nets, procured personal items. 
We returned to the ship for supper at 1750- Much of this day was 
spent by Project Leader in talking to various Naval officials in 
an attempt to procure a second boat for the project but all of this 
discussion was to no avail. The project leader also met with Mr. 
Frye in the stores division at NSC and signed an agreement for the 
storage of our equipment as previously mentioned. They will make 
no charge for this at present. There is an escape clause for them 
if the cost of handling our equipment becomes too great. We will 
have to pay for the construction of crates for the two freezers. Our 
ammunition will be stored in the Naval arsenal here. There seems to 
has 
have been a general foul-up in that DESERET apparently/not completed 
all the necessary paper work with the Navy with regard to the project. 
In particular clearances and necessary orders for the project to land 
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and work on Midway, /with regard to the shipment of live birds on MAT$ 
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planes. I also feel that there were some decisions made In Washington 
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which were based on Inadequate and inaccurate data which have obligated 
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the field party to do some things which they will not be able to do 
due to the adverse weather conditions or the conditions aboard the 
moving ship. We have talked over our movement proceedure with Cdr. Dunlap 
and our movement proceedure will be flesible enough to permit us to M 
