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CPOPERATIONS ORDER NO. 6-54 CHART REFERENCES:

a. World Aeronautical Charts (748, 9, 848, 819, 850) 121,000,000,
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USAF Aeronautical, Planning Chart (AP~14) 1 5 »000,000.

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Brigadier General Howell M, Estes, Jr.

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Lt Colonel Jenes A. Watkins

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Lt Colonel Matton Be Hammond

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Test Support Unit

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Colonel James y Starkey

1, GENERAL SITUATION: boob

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Joint Task Force SEVEN and it Task Groups have’‘successfully
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KOON Mission, The mission covered by this Operations Order is assigned
the code name UNION, . Its jexecution day is U-Day. Aircraft positioning in
space at H-Hour and flight patterns are issued as abnexes here to. This |

order is a specific directive to all elements of thé Air Farce Task Group

to execute their assigned‘missions in support of ‘UNTON.

This order supple-

ments Task Group 7.4 Operations O| rder 1-53 and 2-54;which |are still in
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See Annex A, Intelligence, TG 7.4 Operations Order 1-53.
See Annex B, Organization and Command Relationship, ‘TG 7.4 Oper~

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Task Group 13 will provide, to Task Broup Toly airoraft

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‘Destroyer for the U-Day event,

(See Annex A, Check List,

- this Operations Order and: Annex T, C

Ship CIC Procedures;

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B-50 aircraft of the 97th Bomb Wing (Mod4um) will pantictpate
on U-Day. (See Annex 0, B-50 IBDA Flight Procedures, TG 7.4
Operations Order 2054 and Annex A, Check List, ‘this Operations

Order).

2. MISSION:

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3. TASKSFOR:SUBORDINATE UNITS:

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(1) Bxeeute asadgned tiission to include that specified in Annex A,
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