II PRIVACY ACT PROTECTED MATERIAL REMOVED The latter method prevailed for the remainder of Operation RANGER, During the second shot, fired on 28 January 1951, only one aircraft gathered samples, On the third shot, 1 February 1951, two samplers operated; on 2 February 1951, only one aircraft sampled, For the last shot, on 6 February, two aircraft sampled,” During Operation RANGER, Ma‘or General Roscoe E, Wilson, from the Office of the Assistant for Atomic Energy, visited the site and Colonel Cody and Colonel Fackler gave a description of their manned sampling activities, Although the program had been conducted for the benefit of AFOAT-1 programs, they argued that manned aircraft could be used instead of drones to gather cloud samples for the Atomic Energy Commission radiochemical program, General Wilson agreed that the idea sounded good and suggested that Colonel Fackler draw up more definite plans if the results of the RANGER experiments were successful.° 33 AFWUHO SWEH-2-0034 6. .