personnel was to be island or shipboard.

The photo mentioned above

was taken aboard the USS Curtiss on 30 April.
1254th Air Transport Group, Washington, D.C.
zation were badged with Hq JTF 7.

Eight men from this organi-

They were a mixture of commissioned

and noncommissioned officers, which, considering their organization
and its location, suggests that they were aircrew for one or two VIP
transport aircraft.

TASK GROUP 7.1 (SCIENTIFIC)
Personnel from the following Air Force organizations were badged with
TG 7.1.

Their functions in terms of scientific project activities are in-

dicated where possible with a reference to a project number.
are further described in Chapter 3.

The projects

Exposures for these Air Force partic-

ipants are presented in Table 86.
Air Force Special Weapons Center, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico.

AFSWC was the

Parent organization of a number of the elements in TG 7.4.

AFSWC ac-

tivities were pervasive, and while it is not completely clear why three
AFSWC personnel weré badged with TG 7.1, one of them is identified in
the CTG 7.1 final report (Reference 4)

as working with the LASL group

interested in sampling.
Lookout Mountain Laboratory, Hollywood, California.

Nineteen civilians and

twenty-nine uniformed personnel from LML provided documentary photo
service for the task force and also participated in Project 9.1, Cloud
Photography.
Sacramento Air Materiel Area, McClellan AFB, California.

Four military

were badged with TG 7.1, although no function for this group is established in TG 7.1 reports.

McClellan AFB is the home of a laboratory

where radiochemical analyses were performed, and this group may have
been concerned with preparations for sending samples there.

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