experience gains. on Operation REDWING plus the guidance contained in AFM 66-1, Organizational and Field Maintenance, the Task Group Maintenance Control Unit functioned, throughout Operation HARDTACK, as a single control agency by which we were able to put to best use our limited supply and maintenance capability. The overall efficiency of the Materiel effort is reflected in the outstanding readiness rate of aircraft and related equipment maintained throughcut the operation. Further, durirg Cperation REDWING, the then-organized Task Group, prepared a long range construction program which consisted of a number of projects for improvement of facilities in the Eniwetok This document was finalized in August 1958. Throughout the period from August 1956 to April 1958 this program was given continuous attention. action, most of the As a result of continuous follow-up essential projects were commleted in time for Operation HARDTACK. 158 Moe Proving Grounds.