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No effects aircraft were

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among the seven aircraft which participated 40

Five samplers were used, 44

Air control and comnunications were satisfactory,

ELDER and REDWOOD.

The third dual event of the HARDTACK series was

conducted on 28 June 1958,

R&rDWOOD was detonated on a barge near FOX Ise

land, Bikini Atoll, at 0530 hours; ELDER was also a barge shot near JANET
Island, sndwetok Atel, at 0630 hours,

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SLDER had been postponed eight

7.

The 3-52vas the only effects aircraft of the ten aircraft on the

REDAHOOD mission, **

for sLDER. 43

Six samplers were used for REDWOOD, and five were used

The B~52, returning from the Bikini event was the only ef-

fects aircraft in the ELDER array,“ which included a total of eleven aircraft,

.

No air control or communications problems, for either shot, were en-

countered in the H:iwetok Air Operations Center; however, the Benner Air
Cpsrations Center was without IFF radar for a snort period, althcugh tnis
circumstance did not greatly hamper the mission execution,

“QAK and HICKORY.

For the second successive day, on 29 June 1958, a

dual event was conducted, when CAK was fired on a barge near auICk Island,

sniwetok Atoll, at 0730 hours, and HICKORY was detonated on a barge near

AFWL/ HO

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