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QUARTERS
TASK GROUP 7.4, PROVISIONAL
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
15 August 1953
1800T
OPERATIONS ORDER NO. 1-53
CHART REFERENCES:
a.
World Aeronautical Charts (748, 749, 848, 849, 850) 1:1,000,000.
bv.
USAF Aeronautical Planning Chart (AP~14) 1:5,000,000.
TASK ORGANIZATION:
1. .
a.
Headquarters, Task Group 7.4, Brigadier General Howell M, Estes, Jr.
b.
Test Support Unit
Colonel James F, Starkey
ce.
Test Aircraft Unit
Lt. Colonel James A. Watkins
ad.
Test Services Unit
Lt. Colonel Mahlon B. Hammond
Provisional (TG 7.4)
GENERAL SITUATION:
The Department of Defense, in collaboration with the Atomic Energy
Commission, will test experimental devices at ENIWETOK and BIKINI ATOLLS
early in 1954. JTF SEVEN, commanded by Major General P. W. Clarkson,
United States Army, will conduct the operation, which has been assigned
the code name of CASTLE (RESTRICTED, SI),
a.
See Annex A, Intelligence.
b.
See Annex B, Organization and Command Relationships.
(1)
The Naval Task Group will provide aircraft control facilities
aboard the Command Ship and Control Destroyer to TG 7.4
during rehearsals and shots.
2. MISSION:
a.
The ultimate mission of TG 7.4 is to conduct the following opera-
tions and services in the forward area in direct support of scientific
prograns:
(1)
Cloud sampling.
(2)
Effects test aircraft operation.
(3) Documentary photography aircraft operations,
(4)
Inter-island and inter-atoll airlift operations.
(5)
Communications services.
(6)
Weather service.
(7)
Search and rescue.
b.\ The interim mission of TG 7.4 is to execute the following tasks
prerequisite to accomplishment of ‘the ultimate mission:
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,
a
(1)
“Provide for delivery of significant devices to the forward,
area.
(A plan covering this operation will be prepared at *@
“CLASSIFICATION CANCELLED (
BY AUTHORIP OF D 10cm,
a later date.)
TASK GROUP 7 7.4
OPRS ORDER NO. 1-53
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