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.

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