o— ane) Sr The Bureau of Ships was consulted on possible design of con- te tainers which might be used for this purpose and on about 1 January 1948 drawings were prepared, Orisinally it had been planned to place the containers on land and withdraw them by means of cable after the shots, Later it was decided to include two chambers placed on rafts off shore from the ZERO Island, It was considered that the rafts might be more satisfactory because of the cooling action of the water and the greater facility offered for removing the aninals rapidly after the shot. Arrangements were made for the construction of four test animal chambers, two for land and two on rafts, by the radiation laboratory at Ihinter's Point. These were manufactured and shipped to Long Beach for transportation to Eniwetok on the CVE by 15 February 1948 In addition to the test animal containers Captain Draeger pro~ posed to continue the studies on exposure of biological materials which had proved so interesting following Bikini, A wide variety of samples of assorted biolovicals were obtained from the California Institnte of Technology, Department of Apriculture, Naval Medical > Research Institute, and Chemical Corps, U.S, Army, a” These were care- fully packaged and shipped by air courierto ce abroad the CVE by ~ 15 Fobruary 1948. es! ss A third project was initiated by Captain Dracger to measure the aad thermal sensitivity of various textiles, paints and metals, Se 15 January 1948 Captain Draeger obtained the services of Camnander “ak About “Rudolph LH. Langer of BuShips to assist on the organization and - 27 = tin’ ae Ne —_ < “tee ao Bite va ween ON Oat gee - wees ’ . see SKUs Pt ete Ne hoe mee sere os vs ied met eg ed me rege! rn wore ome — 7 "yy oe! ay heen Se Leh at oe dy irtte reese, rel, tf ee ec Ys : UT? tee ATEA Pe FEA eeOS SGRowe Caf ONtt et EN OREIL ZL ba eign eh