TERS JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN WASHINGTON 25, D, C, J-3/ 30 July 1957 SUBJECT: Air Operations Center (AOC) on BIKINI Atoll TO: Commander 4950th Test Group (Nuclear) Kirtland Air Farce Base, New Mexico 1, Reference is made to your letter of 14 June 1957, subject as above, with inclosed staff study. . °, Your proposal for a BIKINI shore based AOC cannot be suprorted by this headquarters for Operation HARDTACK, While recognizing that many advantages would accrue to the task force in having a shore hased AOC, the following considerations have been made in reaching this conclusion: a. Frojected communication improvements in the ship CIC will: (1) desired hy TG 7.4. Insure UHF air-ground communications to the distance (2) Provide the channel selection, equipment operation flexibility, and inter-position communications within the CIC decired by TG 7.4, (3) Provide broad-hand reczivers to nick up aire aft which ere not precicely on frequency. -_b. AFWL/ HO TAONGT will not be a firin~ site on Creretion HUT CF, Therefore, the air control area in the © iwetok i+. .iag % oud will rot be inersased over that of Oneration B@FDWING, WERDTOCK, o, Only three <ffocts test sircraft are prozrantéd Ser novation These are a B-52, an AZD end a: FUL, The P-57 will binve an airborne os'ticnine canatility. It is deubtfol that the tae a1 savy atrora ’t will navticipate in BIKINI shots, though tris requirene . ve 13 aw ver study ty the Pureau of Aeronautics. In anv went the canter af + boeoh nerfermance aircraft at Bikini stot tin = will te fer less than vas our eyperience during REDWING, “2% “hs + oon) Doel ls pl 9% %