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CHAPTER 10
AIR MONITOR UNIT
INTRODUCTION
The Air Monitor Unit, Task Unit 7.6.1, arrived at Kwajalein Atoll
on 17 March 1948 to participate in Operation SANDSTONE.
of this unit was twofold:
The mission
primarily to insure the radiological safety
of Air Task Group 7.4 and secondarily to obtain, compile and evaluate
data likely to be of value to the AEC or Department of National Defense.
This unit consisted of 24 officers and was commanded by Col Saale
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ACTIVITIES
Col aa and Lt ColWR discussed the mission of Task Unit
| 726.1 with Lt Col MBMMage, c/s of ATG 7.4, shortly after arriving at
Kwajalein.
Coordination and assistance on such problems as housing,
messing, supply, operations and administration were agreed upon,
ATG
7.4 personnel completed the erection of such installations as were
required by 22 March 1918 and the Task Unit was ready for operations
by 24 March 1948,
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Instruments arrived on 20 March and were placed in temporary
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storage until a suitable storage box was constructed from an abandoned
cold storage reefer.
These included 50 G-M type instruments, 55 ion
chamber type instruments, 150 pocket dosimeters and other auxiliary
equipment including a radium source,
Projects immediately undertaken included publication of operational
memoranda, assignment of monitors to mission aircraft, indoctrination
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