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14,000! drone aircraft which went out of control at H - 2 minutes and
crashed,
Folloving
the detonation all other aircraft proceeded to
carry out their assisned missions without incident and without encountering appreciable radioactivity.
The drone aircraft were landed at
Eniwetok and all other aircraft returned to Kwajalein,
The period following <-ray Day was a very busy one.
Cloud tracker
missions were flown until plus five day and the aircraft used for these
missions always returned with exterior contamination thereby necessitating
monitoring and personnel decontamination operations.
Capt. Matthews and
five additional monitors returned to Eniwetok on plus one day to supervise drone aircraft decontamination operations and campile data.
‘Two
monitors were sent to Guam to handle a problem which arose there in
connection with weather reconnaissance aircraft contamination.
Additional
operaticns in this period consisted of post X-ray Day photographic aircraft
missions, compilation of mission data and monitoring of drone aircraft
ground maintenance operations following the return of drone aircraft to
Kwajalein on X-ray Day plus fives
During a visit to Kwajalein on 24 April, Col, Cooney gave an informal
talk to T.U. 7¢6e1 at which time he gave a summary of the results obtained
on X-ray Day and stated some.of the problems anticipated for Yoke
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Operations.
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A final critique of the X-ray test shaved that the overall operation
of T.U. 7e6e1 had been very good,
The one flaw was that post X-ray Day
VEY
operations were somewhat disorganized because of unexpected missions which
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