DETERAINED 10 BE 4 ane ADMINISTRATIVE RT PRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES -/ ‘ a E.0. 12065, Section @ an ty9D. WARS6 DataVAAL. pages This document consists of 2 No. -£.. of --$..- Copios, Series ~4.-- hoa Tn September, 1947, preparations had progressed to the point where / "formation of a Joint Task Force vas directed. Joint Task Force Seven aa actually came ints being on 18 Gotober 1947. As a military organisation, Joint Task Foroe Ssven is unique. It wae organized along the lines of our best war-time experience, but there wes a8 additional element. Ae a part of the organization we hat a Task Group which was sesentially civilian in makeup. This was the Sclentifia Group which conducted the actual tests and which recorded end is still analysing the results. Captain Russell, who is Deputy Director of the Division of Military Application of the AKC, headed this Task Group as feat Director, and Doctor Darol K. Froman, as Scientific Director fer the Proving Ground, headed the Task Unit of scientists within the Task Groups Through Captain Russell, the selentific uait operated technically under the AF0. staff. direete ‘Thies Task Group, by common consent, did uot work through ay The channels between Captain Ruseell, Dr. Freman and ayself vere Dr. Alvin C. Graves served, ae Deputy Director to Dr. Froman and Mr. Robert We Henderson and Dr. John 0. Clark were Aesistant Scientific Dire ectoreeogll from the Loe Alamos Laboratory. The operation ef Jeint Task Force Seven, thus organised, was the ulSinate in integrated effort and embodied our present-day concept of preperedness-this ie the concept we are currently teaching at the Wational War Gollege-—the integrated effort of the Araed Forces with Givilien ecientista and other specialised civilian elementa. It dn aw tribute to the eclentists who vere nemders of the Task Force that the Operation wae successful. The alxing of civilian and allitary -3- | Sree