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, DELETED ~Ssp oe” 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 21 AFWL HO SWEH «2-003, ue