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TASK UNIT 8 -~- TECHNICAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
This task unit provided still
and motion picture services for the scientific and technical operations.
It was composed of LASL personnel with DOD supplements and numbered about
20.
TASK UNIT 9 -- DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY.
This task unit, made up of
personnel from the Air Force 1352nd Motion Picture Squadron based at Lookout Mountain Laboratory, took motion pictures and still photographs of the
operations, including crater survey and cloud photography.
Besides five
camera crews and up to four aircraft stations, TU 9 also had six remote
camera installations.
TU 9 personnel numbered 51.
TASK UNIT 12 -- UCRL PROGRAM.
parable to TU 1
(LASL Programs).
(
This task unit was the UCRL unit comTU 12 and TU 14
(UCRL Assembly)
combined
numbered about 272.
TASK UNIT 13 -- DOD PROGRAMS.
This task unit is described in Chap-
ter 3.
TASK UNIT 14 -- UCRL ASSEMBLY.
This task unit, composed entirely of
UCRL employees, did assembly work on the KOON device in the shot cab on
Eneman and on the device that was to be used for the ECHO test on Eleleron.
Most of the work on the KOON device was finished before BRAVO.
The device
for the ECHO event was nearly completely assembled when the event was cancelled on 13 April.
TASK UNIT 15 -- TIMING.
This unit provided timing signals transmitted
by wire and radio that were primarily intended to coordinate the device
firing systems; however, the unit also serviced all experiments requiring
preshot instrument starting and reference timing signals.
Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier
Personnel from
(EG&G), an AEC contractor, manned this
task unit and numbered about 70 persons.
The geographic distribution of TG 7.1 personnel as CASTLE progressed
is shown in Table 2.
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