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RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL
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Description and History: 1526-1972
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ENEMANIT
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NARROW PASS
BIETO EWEROJ
UJELIANG
Chief Lorenji
Group
(Dri Enjebiy
Joanej’
Group
(Dri Enewetak}
FIGURE 1-35, UJELANG
ATOLL SHOWING RESIDE
NCE ISLANDS.
FIGURE 1.37. FOOD PREPARATION ON UJELANG ISLAND.
The other drastic change in the lives of the people was
the close
proximity in which the dri-Enewetak and dri-Enjebi were compell
ed to
live. Traditionally, a distance of more than 20 miles separat
ed the two
communities except for a brief period on Aomon. On Ujelang
, they
occupied two sides of an arbitrary line which had no real signific
ance. One
effect of this was more infermarriages and a corresponding
increase in
crossed land rights, so that the dri-Enjebi acquired more
rights in the
south than ever before, and vice versa. However: this did not affect
the
strong desire of the dri-Enjebi to possess a residence on their traditio
nal
island.
OPERATION SANDSTONE: APRIL-MAY 1948
Operation Sandstone was conducted by JTF-7, under the comma
nd of
LTG Hull. The Task Force included Army,
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FIGURE 1-36. DWELLINGS ON UJE
LANG ISLAND.
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Navy.
Air F
Stre
roup. Captain James Russel, USN, AEC’s Division of Military
Applications (DMA), was Test Director and Dr. Darol Froman,
also from
AEC-DMA, wasScientific Director. Military Service elemen
ts of the JTF
were commanded byBrigadier General B. T. Ogden, USA,
Rear Admiral
Francis Denebrink, USN, and Major General Roger Ramey,
USAF.75
Construction of temporary facilities at Enewetak Proving Ground
began in