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increase in Air Force effecta aircraft partici -ation during HARDTACK was
possible.“l To verify this information, Colonel Massey contacted Armed
Forces Special Weapons Project and was essured that no increase was then
planned.
The proposed effects participation still included only a B-52
and the two Navy aircraft, an FJ4 and an A4D, which represented a consi-
derable decrease of the effects program under that of REDWING.
In a letter 22 to Joint Task Force SEVEN on 26 June 1957, the 4950th
outlined the HARDTACK airlift aircreft requirement.
The requirement was
based upon several assumptions:
1. That the frequency of flights required by Joint
Task Force SEVEN and the task groups, between Fniwetok
and Bikini, must be of primary consideration in determining aircraft support required.
2.
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That two C-54 aircraft will be assigned to the
4951st Support Squadron (Test) and that all C~47 air-
craft currently assigned to the 495lst will be withdrawn
prior to, or at the beginning of, the operational period
of HARDTACK (approximately 1 March 1958).
3.
That there will be no Documentary Photography
Element participating in HARDTACK from which some air
lift support would be available, if it develops that
there will be a Documentary Photography Flement of three
C-54's and the same support is received from them as dur~
ing REDWING, the number of C-54's planned for the 4951st
ean be reduced by one. During REDWING the Documentary
Photography aircraft p
additional site at Naru
ded all airlift to Tarawa; an
/Naury/, some 800 miles from Eni-
wetok, will require support.
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4 That there will be a 25 per cent traffic increase
over the support provided for REDWING, based upon a Joint
Task Force SEVEN statement that the scope of HARDTACK
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