ZEBRA Shot, ZEBRA day operations were not different from other
operations, with the exception that on the last SANDSTONE shot all
eight drone aircraft gathered samples,
Los Alamos personnel declared
the ZEBRA samples to be the best yet.
‘RadSafe Program on SANDSTOWE,
became very important.
The Rad-Safe program on SANDSTCNE
The unit monitored all aircraft, including
the drones, and had Rad-Safe monitors aboard all flights,
Participating
officers included Lieutenant Colonel Karl H, Houghton, involved in
radiation studies at the Air Force Special Weapons Center; Colonel
Robert N, Isbell, later tobecome chief of the Nuclear Applications
Branch at Air Research and Development Command; and Colonel J.J. Cody,
Jr., Assistant RadSafe Chier: 67 From the standpoint of future cloud
sampling operations, Colonel Cody's experiments with film badges on the
B-17 drone samplers were most significant.
He placed these detectors
on the outside fuselage of the drones, and inside where crew members
would have been had the planes been manned,
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During Operation
SANDSTONE, an aircraft accidently flew through an atomic cloud and the
crew suffered no ill effects,
This incident commenced a chain of events
which eventually resulted in manned samplers.
As Task Force SEVEN was being staffed, Colonel Benjamin G. Holzman
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