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conduct of Air Force support personnel, sampler support teams, and the
Air Force equipment necessary to support special activities and what
equipment would be supplied by the laboratory.

Every conceivable facet

of the proposed operation was covered and designed to eliminate any
misunderstandings after Operation REDWING started."

To avoid radiation

burn accidents, Dr, Plank included instructions to be used in installing,
removing, and securing filter papers. He described the exact tools to be

used for each operation, the placement of the tools on the tractor-trailer
combinations used during sample handling, and precise steps to be taken

for all filter paper handling.

Although at the outset, only trained

physicists were permitted to handle filter paper samples, this duty
became one of many assigned to personnel of the 926th Test Squadron

(Sampling).
Within the lo26th, the Test Aircraft Unit had command operational
control over all elements in the test area,

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Additional responsibilities

included:

(1)

Provide trained personnel for all ground radiological monitoring

of the airfield at Eniwetok,
(2)

:

Provide trained personnel to accomplish and supervise the removal

of particulate cloud samples (collected by aircraft) for Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory and the University of California Radiation Laboratory.
(3)

Procure, issue, and maintain all radiac and protective equipment

required for Task Group 7.4 operations.
(4)

Establish and operate aircraft, equipment, and personnel

decontamination centers,

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