USS GRAOTILLE S. HALL (YAG40) 
Fleet ji’ost Office 
San Francisco 96601 
PLAN OF THE DAY FOR FRIDAY, 2S APRIL 1967 
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MOVIE: TEE EOm-roERS (CS)E - I^/ESTERN MOVIE CLEAN-UP: DECk 
GLEN FORD- HENRY FONDA DUTY CRYPTO: LTJG KOZIELL 
CARRY OUT THE DAILY ROUTINE IN ACCORDANCE mm YAG 40 INSTRUCTIOti ^330,1, 
ENCLCSURE (l)i 
0900 (about) island SUi^veiiiahC^ team departs 
1245 - Zone Inspection Parties assemble in the wardroom 
1300 - Commence Zone Inspection 
1600 (about) Island Sxurveillence team retiims 
1, The Inspection Parties of todays Zone Inspection 
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LCDR Keiser 
LTJG HORNER 
Brennan,' HMCM 
SHAW, DCl 
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Lt* Bable 
Hammond, ETR2 
Hinton, INI 
111 
Lt(jg) Koziell 
Brown, I#I1 
Paulson, FN 
The Zone Inspection will b e a working inspection 
will be: 
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LTJG Smith 
Tolman; SFC 
Howard, PN2 
2, A brief discription of Taongi Atoll 
This atoll, also known as Pokak, Pokaaku, and Gaspar Rico, has the 
shape of a perfect crescent with convex side to the east or windward, ' 
It is almost 11 miles from tip to tip, 21 miles around the convex side, 
14 miles around the concave side, and over 5 miles wide at its widest part. 
The 13 or 14 islets are all on the southeast outer reef of the 
crescent, forming a string, from North islet on the east to Bokla islet 
on the west, that is about 9 miles long. Although land is nearly con¬ 
tinuous along this stretch, the islets are so narrow that there is only 
about 1 square ncJ.e of it in all. Some of‘the islets are separated by 
channels that may be dry most of the time. Some are merely gravel bars 
and rock flats with no vegetation. Thus it is hard to say with certainty 
even how mai^ islets should be recognised. 
The atoll is uninhabited, and is, indeed, one of the least inviting 
places in the Pacific for human residence. There have, apparently, never 
been native inhabitants, though the Marshallese visit the atoll occasionally. 
Before the aboriginal culture was disintegrated by Weetern influence, it was 
regarded as a bird reserve. The small Polynesian rat is fairly common, at 
least on Sibylla islet. 
The Japanese had a small radio?* relay station and bomb dvmp on "Pokak islet, 
during the war. It was bombed out of existence on April 23, 1944. 
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a. SULLIVAN, ICDR, USN 
'^EXECUTIVE OFFICER 
