VIII prepare aircraft for nuclear cloud sampling. This section also removed the cloud samples from the aircraft and prepared them for shipment to . appropriate laboratories for analyses, In addition, the Nuclear Applica- tions Section operated aircraft decontamination and personal dosimetry facilities, The squadron operated independently on temporary duty for extended periods of time, to provide the personnel to fill out the Test Aircraft Unit, and furnish limited support to the austerely manned elements participating in nuclear test operations, These extended periods of temporary duty made it imperative that the squadron operated independently of any consolidated base function, particularly that of maintenance, Under the command of Colonel A, Ousley during Operation REDWING, the L926th Test Squadron (Sampling) was fully operational and worked closely with eight separate operational elements, The Sampling Decontamination Element conducted nuclear cloud sampling operations with ten F-8)G and six B-57B aircraft. These aircraft met the sampling requirements of nuclear clouds which consisted of five samples per detonation ranging in altitudes up to 55,000 feet. They procured samples through use of exposed filter papers during flight through the nuclear clouds or in gas bottles filled under similar conditions, Its members removed bottles or filter papers through specific techniques and stored and shipped these samples to the Atomic Energy Comission in the States, It also functioned as an adminis- trative group headquarters for the Test Aircraft Unit. The Indirect Bomb Damage Assessment Element, a detachment of the 30lst Bombardment Wing, Strategic Air Command, Farksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 268 AFWLdHO SWEH-2-003), oe ma