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Operation redwing: Report to the scientific director. Timing and firing (sanitized version)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:432724
Task Unit 5 (YU-5) was organized to accomplish the following tasks during Operation Redwing (May - June 1956): (1) To supply timing signals and voice count-down to meet the principal requirements of the experimental programs; (2) To supply the arming and firing pulses to the devices tested; (3) To furnish personnel as members of the arming and firing parties; (4) To provide and maintain the Task Group 7.1 (TG 7.1) short-range commercial radio communications at Bikini and Eniwetok atolls; and (5) To perform such scientific measurements and photography as provided for under existing contractual agreements.
Research Organization:
Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, Inc., Boston, MA (United States)
OSTI ID:
432724
Report Number(s):
PB--97-123962/XAB; WT--1367-SAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English