2S> GP (DDE-825), USS Fletcher (DDE-445), USS Radford (DDE-446), USS { ig te —_ re, \ BEST AVAILABLE COPY oom~ xs 2 ~“ é O'Bannon (DDE-450), and Rendova. - Ujelang natives also carried sticky plates, although it was not ’ ~ Fos 7- be Lon go *e = cC-hkw—-o part of JTF 132. HN 2» & (oom TS in O- a ~OT C G © 4 a nL rn ., ~ ~ ot ox ev Ce —-_ cL The high-priority recovery schedule called for a helicopter to carry an unspecified number of personnel to Bokoluo, 4,72 aw’ The LST used to evacuate the Enjebi, Elle, Billae, Runit, Ananij, Enewetak, and Medren for retrieval of samples from the fallout stations (Table 4.3, Mission 11). LCMs were to carry personnel to pick up samples from raft stations. The rafts were retrieved on 3 and 4 November (IPO 132#2, p. E-5). It is not clear whether the total of men making Saal C* * % up the recovery crews was planned to be six or twelve (see Table yY a «& aim a 3-3 4.3). aot The O'Bannon began searching for the dan buoys about 0400 ~~ the day after the MIKE shot. yv ‘See : a - eC 0514 hours on 5 November. i- So 29 rs - out were recovered. o 1 Lg ~~ . & € a eC tT © Table 4.3. — uJ q@ « AS tL a 93§ oe MIKE contaminated the lagoon's waters. Information, their crews, or the personnel from TU 1 collecting the samples 3D Cy ee ec For land station recovery, see however, is lacking on any contamination suffered by the LCMs, c <2 Crewmembers apparently took the samples from Radiation Exposure Potential: | Cc 2a <.§ s Twelve out of the nineteen buoys set the shipboard fallout stations. Cal i 'é The last of the buoys was found at from the raft stations. _£ =oD i — -~ Fourteen O'Bannon personnel and the ship's deck were accidentally contaminated on 3 November when the (a > 4 a r Crew brought a radioactively contaminated dan buoy aboard. ce > rm Ss >a a < 7 Maxmimum reading on personnel was 1.0 mR/hr on shoes, 0.5 mR/hr on “yy « “) Qa US 45 ge / hands. The deck's intensity averaged 0.6 to 0.7 mR/hr. ae ° = a i MY] - QY —! > C 7 uf Tis 4-50 Both the