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PRIVACYACT MATERIAL REMOVED
and 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 documentation, detailed
operational planning for test days and monitor indoctrination flights.
Manned aircraft initially scheduled to participate in the air
operation consisted of the following:
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1 Official Observer
C~5h,
1 Air Command
B29
3 Cloud tracking
B-29
3 Air-sea rescue
1-OA-10
1 Spott
Spotter
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L Photographic
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20-54 ns
2—Ba29ii -mpsnc
12 Drone Mother
B<17
1 Radiological survey
C-47
However, this schedule was later revised to include two additional
cloud tracking aircraft and one additional photographic aircraft.
LCdr
= joined the unit on 24 March to perform the radiological
survey mission,
Eight, unmanned drone aircraft carrying air sample
filters and total range film badges were to be sent through the atomic
cloud on test days to obtain air samples and measure radiation inten-
sities.
Monitors from the air monitor unit were to accompany each manned
aircraft in the test area on shot days to insure that no aircraft would
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