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ORBIT POINT PREPARATION. In Washington 

 D. C. Vice Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, Commander 

 JTF-I, and Maj. General W. E. Kepner, Deputy 

 Task Force Commander for Aviation (both stand- 

 ing) and Brig. General T. S. Power (kneeling) study 

 a "mock-up" of the air operation planned for Test 



Able. The Air Plan, a sizable annex to the Opera- 

 tion Plan, specified position and course of each 

 plane to be airborne on Able Day. Planes were 

 provided for: bomb, pressure-gages, weather re- 

 connaissance, cameras, radiological reconnais- 

 sance, drone boat control, and observers. 



