CHAPTER 8
SUMMARY OF U.S. AIR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN CASTLE
Air Force participation in CASTLE was primarily in TG 7.4, with some
Participation in Hq JTF 7 and TG 7.1
(Scientific).
The organizations
listed below have been extracted from various documents generated
Iduring
the period, primarily the Consolidated List of CASTLE Radiologica]
Expo-
sures
(Reference 13), and do not necessarily reflect Air Force or
tional structure in the order or in the form that they are listed
all Air Force personnel were badged, and since the list of such b
the primary source of this list,
it is possible that Air Force or
tions participated that are not listed below.
HEADQUARTERS JOINT TASK FORCE 7
The following Air Force organizations had personnel who recei
as part of the Hq JTF 7.
List
Exposures for those appearing in the Co
(Reference 13) are presented in Table 86.
Hq USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.
One military offic
who was
probably an observer.
Hq Strategic Air Command.
One civilian who may have been an obserper or
who may have had some liaison function involving the SAC indirfkct bomb
damage assessment {IBDA) or other SAC experiments.
1110th Air Support Detachment, 1110th Group, Hg, USAF.
A single officer,
described in a Lookout Mountain Laboratory photo caption as it}
Manding officer
(Negative 22-2230), was badged with Hq JTF 7.
com|Plans
(Reference 93) called for nine from the group to form the detaghment
and be assigned to TG 7.4, but no personnel with this home stafiion are
on the Consolidated List.
The function of this detachment was]|to
launch a series of balloons that would float at constant altitiide to
aid in fallout prediction.
Launch point and consequent locatign of
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