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to make a final check of T/O and E's and submit final recommendations.
The final organizational plan specified that Task Group 7.4 would be
subdivided into eight subordinate units as indicated on Chart 5 in
Chapter III.
Visits from members of the staff of the Office of the Air Commander’
and visits of the staff of Task Group 7.4 te the operating area added much
to the information and planning that was necessary to organize, equip, man,
and nove to the forwarturea.
Colonels GMM, GIN, and Wize (these
visits were reported previously in Chapter V), of the office of the Air
Commander, visited the Task Group on different occasions and coerdinated
many matters that required attention at the time.
It was stressed to the
officers from Headquarters, Joint Task Force SEVEN, that the Task Group
would go "by the book” insofar as possible, whpre clearances, supplies, and
personnel were concemed.
The Tables of Organization for all Task Units
had been completed by 26 November and final method of travel for all
personnel was submitted on that date.
A directive was published covering
procedures for Atomic Energy Commission clearances.
Another directive
covered the movement of unit aircraft from the United States to include
staging, personnel processing, and equipment.
Lt. Colonel @@MMie, Chief of Staff, Task Group 7.4, and Lt. Colonel
QE, Commanding Officer, Task Unit, 7.4.1, held a series of conferences
on a trip to Kwa jalein in December 1947.
The first conference on movement
through the port was held with the Chief of Staff, Fourth Air Force, and
the Commanding Officer, Hamilton Field, on 9 December 1947.
Arrangements
wore made at that time for housing space, headquarters space, mossing
facilities, and transportation for sixty (60) officers and eight hundred
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