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Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
15 August 1953 18007
OPERATIONS ORDER NO. 1-53
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CHART REFERENCES:
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World Aeronautical Charts (748, 749 9f848, 849, 850) 1:1,000,000.
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USAF Aeronautical Planning Chart (AP~14) 1:5,000,000.
TASX ORGANIZATION:
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Headquarters, Task Group 7. My Brigadier General Howell M, Estes, Jr.
b.
Test Support Unit
Colonel Jameg F. Starkey
c.
Test Aircraft Unit
Lt. Colonel James A. Watkins
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Test Services Unit
Lt. Colonel MahlonB. Hammond
Provisional (1G 7.4) .
GENERAL SITUATION:
The Department of Defense, in collaboration with the Atomic Energy
Commission, will test experimental devices at ENIWETOK and BIKINI ATOLLS
early in 1954. JT¥ SEVEN, commanded by Major General P. W. Clarkson,
United States Army, will conduct the operation, which has been assigned
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the code name of CASTLE (RESTRICTED, SI).
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See Annex A, Intelligence.
b.
See Annex B, Organization and Command Relationships.
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The Naval!Task Group will provide aircraft control facilities
“aboard the Command Ship and Control Destroyer to TG 7.4
‘ during rehearsals and shots.
MISSION:
a. The ultimate mission of TG 7.4 is to conduct the following operations and services in the forward area in direct support of scientific
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Cloud sampling.
Effects test aircraft operation.
Documentary photography aircraft operations.
Inter-island and inter-atoll airlift operations.
Communications services.
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