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Special Orders Number 1, Task Group 7.6, dated 28 February
1948, were published, establishing an Air Monitor Unit (Task Unit
725.1) under the cazmand of Colonel Isbell which siould be located at
Kwajalein,
The unit would operate fran this base on air monitoring
missions in conjunction with the atomic bomb tests.
Special Orders
Number 2, Task Group 7.6, dated 29 February 1948 established additional
task units into which the task group was divided for operational pur-
poses,
Task Croup 7.6 was now departmentalized into Task Units as
follows:
T.U. No,
DESIGNATION
CQMATDED OR DIRDC" ED LY
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Air Monitor Unit
Staff Unit
7656
Technical
Tobe?
urements Unit
Monitor Unit
Dr. H. SCOVILLE, Jr., AFSWP
Cdr. Be. H. SMITH, Jr., USN
70609
Rear Echelon Unit
Cdr. T. R. FONICK, USN
70603
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70605
706.8
Col. Re N. ISBELL, USAF
%. Col, K, He. HOUGHTON, USA
Operations Unit
Laboratory Unit
Radiolozical
Maj. Ne We STONE, Jr., USA
Cdr, He L, ANDREIS, USPHS
Records Unit
Maj. Je T. BRENNAN, USA
Meas-
Advisory Unit
Dr. J. F. NOLAN, AEC
At this tine Captain William F, Bolen, USA was desicznated as Historical
Officer, Task Group 7.6 assisted by Chief Yeasan Cameron ‘V. Croasdell.
‘while enroute to Pearl Harbor, Lt. Camander Jacob J, Vandersrit<
Jre, USN, the School Director at the Radiological Safety School,
Treasure Island, California, was designated as the School Officer for
Task Group 7.6, and he outlined a schedule of classes to be conducted
while enroute to the test site,
These classes began on 1 March and were
conducted daily in the Forward Ready Room of the ship.
was divided into four periods.
The school day
An outline of the subject mtter covered
during the first week at sea, shuving respective lectures is as follows:
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