PREFACE
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Our job in Task Group 7.4 was to provide air support to Joint Task
Force SFVEN,
The purpose of this report is to brief what we did in carry-
ing out this job.
Anyone interested in more detail than contained in this
report is referred to the histories of the Task Group and of its units.
Although Headquarters fask Group 7. was not formally established for
Operation HARDPACK until October 1957, plans and preparation for its
participation in the op*ration started long before that within Headquarters,
Joint Task Force SEVFN, and within the headquarters and squadrons of the
950th Test Group (Nuclear) of the Air Force Special Weapons Center.
Thus,
this report covers activities starting as early as the Spring and Summerof ;
1957.
The last shot of the HARDTACK series took place at the Eniwctok
Proving Grounds on 18 August 1958,
Roll-up activities, deactivation of
provisional units, and reassignment of personnel will take place for several
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weeks to come.
These matters are routine, however, and therefore this
report has been cut off as of 18 August 1958 in order to permit early
publication.
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The report is organized into five parts as follows:
Part
I
Summary
Part
II
Command
Part
III
- Part
IV
Part
V
Personnel & Administration
Operations
Materiel
I take this opportunity to express appreciation to.all the officers
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and airmen who have served in Task Group 7.4 so faithfully and well.
SWS 8SRD 28532/
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