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Commander, J-1 of Joint Task Force SEVEN, and Air Foroe Headquarters.
For
the most part, however, General Qa staff was not involved in prooure=
ment of personnel other than for the staff itself.
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Aircraft Requirements.
The problem of aircraft procurement varied from day to day until
the requirement for aircraft was definitely established.
During the plan-
ning phases of the operation, it was sometimes difficult to deeide just how
many and what type aircraft would be needed to perform the mission.
For
instance, the decision as to the number of C-54 type aireraft required for
transportation purposes changed several times, with each change increasing
the requirement previously established.
In some instances, the availability
of certain critical items of equipment influenced tne problem.
In each case
there was quite a bit of discussion as to the need for aircraft, but discussion as to the type of aircraft to be employed was usually oonfined to
the Offioe of the Air Commander.
Radio-controlled airoraft were needed on test days to penetrate
the atomic cloud at 2,000 feet intervals from 14,000 feet to 28,000 feet.
This requirement was met by the provision of twenty-four (24) B-17 airecraft, twelve (12) of which were radio-controlled, and tweive (12) were
Mother airoraft.
This provided fifty per cent spares to allow for technical
and maintenance difficulties.
These aircraft were equipped by the Air
Materiel Command and tumed over to the lst Experimental Guided Missiles
Group (Task Unit 7.42).
The 514th Weather Reeonnaissance Squadron from Guam furnished
the eight (8) specially equipped B-29 aircraft for air weather reoonnaissance.
Personnel in this squadron were already trained and eqiippéd for
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