gia. Lethenoted parties to work for limited times im arcas (on osrtain ocuplex) in which the radiation field wee as high as weyers This was dons, alth oto for sone individuals 4¢ was cecoanacy (beonuse of priar dosage) to tnorease the maximum par~ uiseible exposure for the operation from 3.9K to GR, f. The Tare airstrip was reactivated on 20 April, which greatly facilitated the arrival of yoplasamant personne) (with low acowmilated dosage) from Eniwetok, Yn addition, Zan Island was radsefe by Union plus 3 for use as an assenbdly, sorting and starage area, This greatly facilitated the rolleup of those projects not participating in Yankee, £: Project 1.4 wes again under considerable peossure to effect resovery, repair canaged dnstrunent buoys, anf install a buoy array for Yankes, However, thie probles was alleviated by the assignment of an additional (making two) fleet “s. (at¥) to the project, Se Tankae &. Ae indisated in tha sree coding ‘paragraph, the planned tine Interval between Union and Yankes madeexpeditious recovery from Uulon and preparation for Yankee aaudatory. The recovery and roll-up activity was greater than that for ‘participation in Yerkes, This participation was limited ty exhausticn of test material and equireent in prior shots, daxage te shore installations from the wave action of Union, anticipatedmore severe wave action from Yankes, and by the fact thet some projects had obtained adequate useful data - from prior gheta, As & rasult, no instrumentation was shorebased exceeypt for a few stations on the Dog-George camplex, on the Cbos-Suger complex, and one station each on How and Ean, Project 1.4 (underwater pressure woasurexents) inetalled sight instrumented bucys in the lagoon and Project 1.6 (wavs weasure~ sents) |established its instrumentation int hs lagoon, b. Cu the scheduled Yankee minus one day, EpesWee complete and instrumentation ac- tivated es necessary, By 1630, the chips, exosot for the USS Estea, evacuated the lagoon. The USE stos, after return of the erting party, cleared the lagoon abart 21396. -339- 37