TERS JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN
WASHINGTON 25, D, C,
J-3/
30 July 1957
SUBJECT:
Air Operations Center (AOC) on BIKINI Atoll
TO:
Commander
4950th Test Group (Nuclear)
Kirtland Air Farce Base, New Mexico
1,
Reference is made to your letter of 14 June 1957, subject as
above, with inclosed staff study.
.
°, Your proposal for a BIKINI shore based AOC cannot be suprorted
by this headquarters for Operation HARDTACK, While recognizing that
many advantages would accrue to the task force in having a shore hased
AOC, the following considerations have been made in reaching this
conclusion:
a.
Frojected communication improvements in the ship CIC will:
(1)
desired hy TG 7.4.
Insure UHF air-ground communications to the distance
(2) Provide the channel selection, equipment operation
flexibility, and inter-position communications within the CIC decired
by TG 7.4,
(3)
Provide broad-hand reczivers to nick up aire aft which
ere not precicely on frequency.
-_b.
AFWL/ HO
TAONGT will not be a firin~ site on Creretion HUT CF,
Therefore, the air control area in the © iwetok i+. .iag % oud will rot
be inersased over that of Oneration B@FDWING,
WERDTOCK,
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Only three <ffocts test sircraft are prozrantéd Ser novation
These are a B-52, an AZD end a: FUL,
The P-57 will binve an
airborne os'ticnine canatility.
It is deubtfol that the tae a1 savy atrora ’t will navticipate in BIKINI shots, though tris requirene . ve 13 aw
ver study ty the Pureau of Aeronautics.
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than vas our eyperience during REDWING,
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