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6.
15 H-19's or H-21's for inter-island airlift
7.
2 1L-19's for inter-island airlift and profi-
8.
10 B-57B's for sampling.
9.
6 B~57D's for sampling.
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at Eniwetok.
ciency flying.
10,
1 B52 for effects.
11,
2 RB-36's for data collection on the high
22.
2FJ4's for Navy effects.
altitude shota,
13, 2 A4D's for Navy effects.
4. 3 B-57's for indirect bomb damage assessnent,
operating from Guam.
15.
1 P2V for Navy effects support.
16,
8 UF aircraft for search and rescue and for
-
island resupply. (Placement of these aircraft for
operational control was undetermined.)
Communications and Air Operations Control. The Task Group 7.4 draft
of the Preliminary Communications Plan for HARDTACK, based essentially
upon the REDWING plan, was completed in November 1956 and was submitted
through channels to Headquarters United States Air Force for coordination.
The plan, with modifications, was approved also by Special Weapons Center,
Air Research and Development Command, and Joint Task Force SFVEN,
During
the spring of 1957 several commnications conferences were held with Air
Research and Development Command, Headquarters United States Air Force,
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