Table 2.
Task Group 7.1 population at the Pacific Proving
Ground, 1954.
Date
Enewetak
Bikini
Other
Locations
1 Jan
59
32
0
91
1 Feb
404
327
5
736
15 Feb
513
342
16
871
1 Mar
520
485
17
1,022
29 Mar
595
294
2
891
5 Apr
617
211
0
828
26 Apr
441
178
0
619
5 May
344
152
0
496
15 May
393
0
0
393
Source:
Total
Reference 8, April and May Installments.
Task Group 7.2 (Army)
‘
This group, the successor to TG 132.2, was the permanent garrison
force in the PPG and had been present during Operation IVY.
Its lineage
dated back to the inception of nuclear weapon testing at Enewetak in 1948
(Operation SANDSTONE).
The bulk of TG 7.2 was the 7126th Army Unit (AU),
which had been fofmed from several Army units
(listed in Chapter 6)
that
had made up TG 132.2.
TG 7.2 missions included control of all task force military personnel
remaining in the forward area after the close of IVY, reestablishment of
the normal garrison force functions, provision of base facilities for
tenant units, serving as the representative of the CINCPAC at Enewetak,
and providing internal military security and ground defense for the atoll.
The tasks as finalized by CJTF 7 Operation Plan 3-53 (Reference 9) were as
follows:
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