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PERSONNEL
Headquarters Task Group 7.4 was designated and organized at Kirte
land Air Force Base on 1 October 1957, from the resources of Headquarters
4950th Test Group (Nuclear).
Tha former was organized to accomplish the
Air Force mission in support of overseas nuclear testings the latter bad
the responsibility for supporting both overseas and continental nuclear
test programs.
To accomplish the continental test miasion, the 4950th
Test Group (Nuclear) consisted of (1) the Headquarters, (2) the 4935th Air
Base Squadron at Indian Springs Air Force Base, Nevada, the primary sup-
port organization for continental tests (but having no direct part in Gver—
seas tests), (3) the 495lst Support Squadron at Eniwetok, which provided
Air Base support in the Eniwetok Proving Ground, (4) the 4926th Test Squadron (Sampling), permanently stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base but per—
forming sampling missions in either the Eniwetck Proving Ground or the
Nevada Test Site, and (5) the 4952nd Support Squadron, made up of Air Force
specialists and technicians provided on temporary duty at either the Nevada
Test Site or the Fnivetok site to augment support activities.
The 4952nd
Support Squadron had a normal strength of some 250 airmen and 12 officers,
but its strength end composition was subject alterations after each test,
because the augmentation required at Eniwetok (where some base support activities were the responsibility of Task Group 7.2) was much different from
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