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‘In Operation Order 1-58, dated 1 Octobe: 1957, Commander, Joint Task
Force SEVEN delegated to Commander, Task Group 7.4 the responsibility for
control of all aircraft flying in the Eniwetok Air Control Area,
flying within this area fell into three (3) categories:
Aircraft
Test aircraft
participating in test detonations, Joint Task Force SEVEN aircraft flying
locally and aircraft entering or departing the area.
These aircraft
categories posed three (3) different control problems, which will be discussed in this chapter.
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Task Group 7.4, in conjunction with the AACS and representatives of
CAA at Honolulu and Wake, set up an air control area around the Eniwetok
and Bikini Atolls.
(See Figure 21)
Control of traffic within this area
was exercised by Task Group 7.).
To handle the three (3) types of control mentioned above, there were
set up within the Eniwetok Control Area three (3) different controlling
facilities,
These were the Eniwetok Air Operations Center, which was the
master control center; a subsidiary control center aboard the USS BOXER
and precise positioning control facilities using MS5Q-14 and M-33 radar
equipment in vans.
The Eniwetok Air Operation Center (EAOC) was established on 8 March
1958 and assigned the mission of controlling the movement of all aircraft
in the Eniwetok Control Area on a 2) hour a day basis throughout the test
period,
This center served also as the Command Post for the Task Group
Commander during test events.
Aircraft were controlled by Officer Inter-
cept Controllers (AFSC 161-16) utilizing the AN/USQ-12 positioning
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