because of the evacuation.
Rapid reactivation of emergency facilities on
the Enewetak Island airstrip was needed in case of an emergency landing.
(The advance planning was justified by an emergency landing of an F-84.)
A list of personnel categories considered essential for early reentry to
Enewetak included (IPL 132#2, Annex U):
1. Task Group 132.4 personnel to operate aircraft
emergency landing area at Enewetak
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4. Scientific personnel for KING instrumentation
5. Key Holmes and Narver personnel
6. Loran detachment
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helicopter then proceeded north at about 10 knots (18 km/hr).
radioactivity on each island was measured from about a 25-foot (8-meter)
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altitude using an AN/POR-T1B detector.
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to proceed until it reached an exposure of 3 R/hr.
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