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vehicles were to be provided by Task Group 7.2, the Eniwetok housekeeping
organization.
Maintenance personnel assistance was to be provided to Task
Group 7.2 by the Test Base Unit of Task Group 7.4, by virtue of a mutual
agreement.
Requirements for special purpose vehicles for HARDTACK were submitted
to the Special Weapons Center in April 1956 while REDWING was underway.
This list contained 182 vehicles.
Then, during the logistics planning
conference on 20 February 1957, a determination was made that special pur—
pose vehicles for Task Group 7.4 would be furnished from Air Force resources.
Air Research and Development Command, thus, submitted a revised
requirements list for Task Group 7.4 to Memphis Air Force Depot for 117
vehicles.
The cover letter 45 asserted that the requirements for special
purpose vehicles had increased over those for REDWING for three reasonss
(1) the planned increase in flying operations; (2) the increased duration
of the tests; and (3) the dual shot concapt "which involves the use of
both Bikini and Eniwetok simultaneously."
The letter noted further that
six vehicles used at the Nevada Test Site during PLUMBBOB would be available for shipment to, and use in, the Eniwetok Proving Ground.
All spe~
cial purpose vehicles drawn from Zone of Interior stocks were to be ready
at theport of embarkation for shipment to Eniwetok by 1 January 1958.
A subsequent letter from Air Research and Development Command to Head-
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uarters United States Air Force 46 ststed that only 104 vehicles had been