essential construction and the military Services have provided
to us the military task groups for organization and training
in accordance with our planning criteria.
After all this
preparation we are now executing our mission as effectively
and expeditiously as possible.
We will return forces and
equipment to supplying agencies at the earliest date after
completion of REDWING, after which our headquarters resumes
planning for any ensuing test series.
The first shot of operation REDWING is scheduled for
1 May*.
Succeeding shots will be firec as rapidly as devices
can be made ready, as weather conditions will permit and as
crews and aircraft are able to perform under varying zonditions,
We hope to fire the last shot in late August.
To meet this
schedule movement of our major elements to the forward area
began in February.
The Air Force task group headquarters for
example, is in place now.
We - JTF-7 - will establish our
Headquarters at Parry Island ENIWETOK Atoll,
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15th of April.
We hope to have completed our roll-up operations by end of 1956.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the PPG,
here is a chart which shows ENIWETOK and BIKINI Atolls, a part
of the proposed danger area, and the air control area,
To take
advantage of existing weather, we have established the capability of firing either a large yield device on BIKINI or a
small yield device on ENIWETOK on any one day.
Conditions
often exist when wind vectors may be unfavorable for the fallout pattern of a large yield device at BIKINI but entirely
satisfactory for the firing of a small yield device at ENIWETOK,
This we refer to as our e-Atoll-concept.
All of us are interested in achieving the greatest results
at the lowest cost,
None the less, the operation will be
* Wording to be changed as the operation progresses.