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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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