IT aircraft and crews on 2, January 1951, and early the next morning, they took off to participate in the full-scale rehearsal.” On the morning of 27 Jamary 1951, the B-50 aircraft carrying the first nuclear device for Operation RANGER arrived over the test site, having taken off from Kirtland Air Force Base. At 02U5, the first sampler, QUEBAEL One, took off from Nellis Air Force Zase, ‘PRIVACY ACT PROTECTED MATERIAL REMOVED 32 AFWUHO SWEH =2-0034 5\