XIII deployed. Typical of the coordination required on an operation of this magnitade and participated in by the variety of aircraft and missions thereof, was the Travis to Hickam leg of the deployment, The four B-57 aircraft and one SC-5 aircraft were prepositioned at Travis Air Force Base, on 18 October 1960, The problem was to coordinate the passage of the U-2 aircraft over an orbit point of the SC-Sl on the Los Angeles to Honolulu track and allow time for the rescue aircraft to move from the Travis to Honolulu track by the time the B-57 aircraft passed, This was accomplished as the SC-5l departed Travis approximately one-half hour before the first U-2 left its home station at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, The - four B-57 aircraft departed Travis in formation one-half hour before the first U-2 passed over the Long Beach very high frequency omidirectional range, The SC-5l was in orbit on the Los Angeles to Honolulu track when all three U-2 aircraft passed overhead, then when the last U-2 was 250 miles along the track toward Ocean Station November, the SC-5l moved up to the vicinity of the Travis to Honolulu track for passage of the B-57 aircraft, The coordination was perfect, and valuable navigational assistance was obtained from the rescue aircraft, All the deploying aircraft then passed over the Ocean Station Vessel November and a second SC-Sh midway between the vessel and Honolulu, Radio contact between all the aircraft and the vessel was good, and the B-57 flight was made without incident,?? From the time of its organization until the 926th Test Squadron (Sampling) transferred from its membership with the Air Force Special Weapons Center, it engaged in sampling operations for the following 276 SWEH-2-003 4