‘ Sidr re2 elke = ° - . ‘ . 4 pa r ro? F ares 7 5 Pd ° 7 nt ifie ae te - - ' . as en08, 8 gett, the shot was postponed for 24 hours, however, yand return to the USS Balvokeat 1816, ; S. Ge. ¢ 4 wi S¥ g t pee EE] REAF iieae the ahips resninad at sea. Durisg the morning, it was disocrered tint one of the Raydiet s#tations was net sporating properly and & request was made for a helloopter flight te tebe a kaydict te each of the atations for a check, The toclmician sferred by high line fron the 035 Curvies to a destroyer, At 0620, 7 April, the was wery cloudy and scone ecncern was exprossed that the be fired because of a rain squall between Tare aud Conditions apparently were suitable and the shot dule. A faint glow wes observed beneath the low clouds, Cieshpated rapidly and nothing further was observed fron eo The early helicopter survey reported heavy fall out on is Practically none on Choe or Han, end a significant amount ard George indicating that the cloud had moved cut of the in a northeasterly dirsction aa predicted. The low yield ts ehet was partd iy disceuwraging because of the extensive which had gone inte the blact lines on Tare aud Uncle, the structure on Unele, and the farest studies which were to te made on Unele, Wiliam ané Vieter. a. Saion & Prior to the Koon detana- tion, a readiness date of Keon plus9 days had been established fa Unien, thus setting the date as 16 April, The shot location reanined as originally sehpduled, making Union the first barce shot in open lagcon waters, scutherly of Dog Island. . bd. The land based instrunenta- tion for D® projects pertioipating“on-site” was largely confined to isiands of the Deg-Geerge complex, lxcoptions to this were projects 2.65 and 2.1 which had stations generally distributed around the atoll and project 12a which had stations m the SoeZare complex, Although some radioactive contamination r erained fran preceding shote in the Able-Charlle region amt the Bog-George regicn, mo eritical radsafe probliom was imposed in preparing far the shot, 2 Although all pereannel lived aboard ship, with the ships inthe vicinity of Kan (exoest @337=