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eadquarters
4950TH TEST GROUP (NUCIEAR)
Air Force Special Weapons Center

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United States Air Force
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

SWSM

10 July 1957

SUBJECT:

Concept of Air Task Group Logistics Support, Operation HARDTACK {C)

TO:

See Distribution

1.

Reference is made to secret message, Headquarters, United States

Air Force, cite 55434, dated 29 April 1957, announcing the beginning of the

planning phase of Operation HARDTACK to be held in the Eniwetok Proving

Grounds in 1958,

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2.

For your information the staff of the 4950th Test Group (Nuclear)

3.

The attached document, Logistics Support for HARDTACK, is forwarded

is performing like duties on the staff of Task Group 7.4.

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as aid in such preliminary planning as can be accomplished at this time. |

It is anticipated that the Task Group Ilegistice Plan will be published on/or
about 1 August 1957, (C)

1 Incl:

PAUL R, WIGNALL

a/s

DISTRIBUTION:

Comdr, JTF-7, Wash, D.C,

Colonel, USAF

Commander

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Comdr, ARDC, Balto, Md. (2)
Comdr, MATS, Andrews AFB, Md.

(4)

Comdr, AMC, MCSDCP, Mr. Douglass
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

Comér, SAC, Offutt AFB, Nebraska

(3)

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Comdr, TAC, Langley AFB, Virginia (4)
Comdr, ADC, Ent AFB, folorado (4) G)

Comdr, 4951st Spt Sq (T), APO 187
San Francisco, California
,

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AFWL/ HQ

Comdr, 4925th Test Gp (A), ATTN: (3)
Maj F. N. Pool, Kirtland AFP, NMex
Comdr, FC, AFSWP, ATTN: WET, (2)

Mercurv, Nevada
Comdr, Task Group 7.1, Los Alamos,
New Mexico

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Comdr, USA, Task Group 7.2, APO 187,
San Francisco, California

Comdr, Task Group 7.5, P.O. Rox 5400,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Comdr, 4926th Test Sq (S), Kirtland AFB,

My

New Mexico -

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