— Tre picture ls further confused because soue of the natives had bathed and sor@ had not before the arrival of the evacuation tean. Most of the 22 5.8. Service personnel stationed on mmivetak Island, Rongerik Atoll, received about 40-$0 roentgens, based en filu badge reade ings. Three cexbers of the group who were located for part of the tixe in another section of the island were estinated to have recelved somewhat higher coses. Seventeen ef the 22 personnel shoved enly slight supa ficial lesions with one questionable case of epilation. It should be pointed out that the personnel were in retal buildings during some of the fallout tise and for most of the tine thereafter until evacuation. This reduced the direct contexination as well as the uhole-tedy gama dose. 4 fiir badge banging on the canter pole of a tent «t one end of the island read 9€ roentguns. Caloulations based on dose rate readings af another part of the island indicated somewhat lower doses, if persenne] had recsined in the open for the period ef tire from fallout (about H plus 7.§ hours) to evacuation (at ahout F plus 34 hours). Upon arrival at Kwajalein one personnel gamma dose rate reading vas as high as 250 mr/hr at about E plus 34 hours. PUEINY. Tae aboye date do suggest that there may be possible a rough bracketing of gazcua-beta doves versus beta burns. On the ane hand, the netives from Utirik received an estinuted vhole~body gauma dose of 15 roentgens and showed no evidence of beta burns. On the otter hand, the natives on Sifo Island, Aflinginas Atoll, received about an estinated whole-body gama dose of 75 roentgens with 14 persomel shoving slight RT