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ground training of monitors for flying operations, construction of
personnel decontamination and instrument calibration facilities,
orientation and indoctrination of ATG 7.4 personnel, evaluation of
instrument performance at high altitudes, photographic decunentation,
detailed operational plamuing for test days and monitor indoctrination
flights.
Manned aircraft initially scheduled to participate in the air opera-
tion consisted of the following:
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however this schedule was later revised to include two additional cloud
tracking aircraft and one additional photographic aircraft,
LUCdr E, R.
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King joined the unit on 24 March to perform the radiolorsical survey
massion,
Eight, unmanned drone aircraft carrying air sample filters aml
total range film badges were to be sent through the atamic cloud on test
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Monitors from the air monitor unit were to accampany each manned
aircraft in the test area on shot days to inswre that no aircraft woull
enter an area where the radiation intensity was creater than 100 nr/hr,
Other tasks in comection with the tests consisted of drone aircraft.
monitoring and decontanimation operations at Eniwetok, aircraft monit orin:
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