smaller-yield devices were tested, and Bikini was an advance camp where the larger-yield
devices were tested.
Most of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel were on ships operating around Bikini

providing supply, evacuation capability, and other support to the tests there.

Most of

the Army and Air Force personnel were on Enewetak.
All the Services had personnel
assigned to laboratory organizations whose operations were conducted on both atolls as
well as other locations in the Pacific area.

The operations ran smoothly except for two incidents.
The airdropped demonstration
test, CHEROKEE, was considerably off target; and the edge of the cloud from the last event

fired at Bikini, TEWA,

passed over Enewetak causing fallout there.

The missed airdrop

caused no exposure of personne] to ionizing radiation as the entire Bikini Atoll had been
evacuated, and the miss was in the direction of the open sea. But the TEWA fallout on the
Enewetak base camp did lead to the exposure of the personnel there. The incident occurred
toward the end of the series when some personnel had already returned to the United
States, but the remaining Enewetak personnel received about an additional 1.5 R exposure
from this incident.
The overall average exposure for the series was approximately 1.7 R.
The highest exposures were recorded by Air Force flight officers whose aircraft penetrated

the nuclear clouds on scientific missions.

The recorded REDWING exposures are summarized

in the following table by service affiliation.
Civilians employed by the Services have
been included with the uniformed personnel.
Other participants included personnel from
other U.S. Government agencies including the AEC, AEC contractors, and foreign military
and U.S. media observers.

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