qx RED EPLOYMENT 2. the redeployment of tesk sroup units wes accomplished very expeditiously, The last ehot in the CASTLE series, MECTAR, was fired st Eniwetok on 14 Nay. On 18 May, NECTAR plus four days, the last shipa sailed for hone, wlth the exception of the Atomic Werfare Countermeasures Unit, YaGs 39 and 40, oxi MOLALA, Thay rensined ab Exiwetok an additions) week, working to reduce the contemination en YAG 40 to levels low enough to permit her te safl for Pearl Harbor with so crew aboard. DECARTURED 2. Three unites bed left the task group early in the Operation, Qn 28 Februsry, prior to the first shot, LST 825 completed approm imately two weeks duty in CASTLE as a temporary replacem nab for LST 551 ant salled for the For Kest. On 2 March, GYPSY, relieved by USS MED ER because of her urgent need for hull repaire, sailed for Pearl flarbor. LST 1148, tenporary relief for LST 762 while the 762 effected repzirs et Eniretok, departed for Fecrl Harbor on 4 april. 3. The next ehip tc be relessed was LST 762. She reported in the forward area early in the CASTLE buildup period on 13 July 1953 and ander the cperational control of CTG 7.2, supported the estsblish— mont of the Bikini site. on 22 April shortly after camletion of the period of upkeep provided by the temporary assignzent of LST 1146 she suffered a major casualty, fracture of a main propulsion shaft, geen AEWLHO in 2h /