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Arrange for the acquisition, issue, and control of all film
badges for personnel of Task Group 7. participating in this operation.
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Establish a suitable program to train Task Group 7. and 7.1
project personnel as radiological monitors,
This course
was given
at Eniwetok prior to the first shot.
Along with normal functional sections, the 926th maintained a
nuclear applicationssection to instrument and prepare aircraft for
nuclear cloud sampling.
It was also responsible for removing the cloud
samples from aircraft andpreparing them for shipment.
Finally, the
nuclear applications sectionoperated aircraft decontamination and
personal dosimetry facilities. _
Successful accomplishment of the sampling phases of Operation
REDWING, approaching in August 1955,still depended on obtaining modified
aircraft of the proper types and numbers.
At the operational planning
conference, noted above, delegates were notified that the requirements
for a B-36 sampler controller, previously included on requirements lists
for REDWING, were deleted.
The 925th Test Group had at least ten F-8
aircraft for sampling duties to augment the B-S7aircraft, and officials
had expected no difficulty acquiring these aircraft for REDWING.
On 1 September 1955, Colonel Sarl A. Ousley, then commander of the
ug26th, visited Warner-Robins Air Materiel Area, where the B-57B
modifications were being performed, for a firm delivery date and to
investigate expediting the modifications.
He learned that three of the
aircraft were to be completed in November and three in December, but a
subsequent technical order required additional modification on the
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