were;ten (10) WB-50's for weatherfé6énnaissance purposes, seven (7) SA-16's

fot Search and Rescue and weather island resupply missions, three (3) C-54's
f

and wwo (2) RB-50's for photographic missions.

Personnel to operate these

aircraft and to carry out the functions of operating eight (8) weather
islands, a weather central, Air Force communications, a Military Air
Transport Service Terminal and documentary photograph were supplied by MATS.
This was the organization which Task Group 7.4 set up to plan for and
to conduct Operation HARDTACK.

See Figure 1, Chapter 3 - Command Section

for a presentation of the organization.

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