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Table 6.

Estimated Task Group 7.3 personnel at Enewetak
Atoll, 1954.

Enlisted
Men

Officers

Enewetak Island (236 total)
TG 7.2 Boat Pool Detachment

112

Underwater Detection Unit, 7.3.8.0

22

1

Enewetak Harbor Unit, 7.3.8

27

1

3

Enewetak and Bikini Fighter Elements,

7.3.2.1, 7.3.2.2

30

Project 6.4 P2V-5 aircraft (1)

PBM-5A aircraft (2)

10

Hw

wo

Project 1.4 P4Y-2 aircraft (1)

wo

Serving in Army Post Office 187

Parry Island (5 total)
Task Group Hq Communications
(boat pool personnel)
Sources:

5

Reference 9, p. D-3; Reference 11, p. 7c-1; Reference 14, April Installment, p. 59, May Installment,
pp. 212-213, 238.

Bikini to assist in sorties for shot NECTAR, which was cancelled a number
of times before it was finally detonated on 14 May.

Task Group 7.4 (Air Force)
The Air Force task group had not been based at Enewetak during IVY,
the previous test series at the PPG, but at Kwajalein.

The mission of

this task group was generally to provide air transport, aircraft and crews
for cloud sampling, air operations control, and general air support.
specifics of the JTF 7 Operation Plan 3-53

(Reference 9) were:

1. Provide, maintain, and operate aircraft in support of
the following scientific missions
Cloud sampling and cloud tracking
b.

Measurements of blast, gust, and thermal effects
on aircraft

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