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Group 7.4 elements a firm basis for detailed planning activities, ‘The
plan, following broadly the earlier concepts eet forth in Planning Direce
tive 5-S7, made available to participating elements extensive information
on all predicted phases of the test series,
Major advancements of the
operation plan over the planning directive were particularly noticeable
in areas concerned purely with operational functions,
The operation plan, for example, presented definitive data on the
requirements of test effects aircraft, showing test projects in which
each aircraft was to be involved and giving a brief mumation of the ob-
Jectives of each project, Shot schedules for Eniwetok and Bikini were”
included in the plan as originally published, but by direction of the
Joint Task Force SEVEN Conmander, these schedules subsequently were re-
moved from the plan and destroyed, In these schedules, 13 shots were
planned to be fired at Bikini Atoll,
A principal portion of the plan was devoted to comnnications,
Annex E established the policies and general plans for the installation,
maintenance, and operation of Task Group 7. commmnications and electroric facilities,
(See "Communications and Air Operations Control," this
chapter, for a fuller treatment of commmications,)
The estimate of the general situation for HARDTACK was one of the
most interesting aspects of the operation plan,
The plan, swmaarizing
much of the early information on the test series, stated that the series
would consist of some 25 detonations, the first shot being scheduled for
15 April 1958,
The tests were to be conducted as expeditiously as
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