TET 68 RE OPS

Aircraft positioning data for CASTLE, UNION.
Slant

Altitude

Ranged

B-36 Effects

12.2

19.1

188

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B-47 Effects

10.7

20.0

180

174

9.4
9.1

42.6
55.6

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C-54-1

4.3

138.9

315

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C-54-2

3.2

92.6

270

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C-54-3

3.8

138.9

225

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Aircraft

(km)b

(km)b

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abort

B-50 IBDAS

B-50 IBDAS
B-50 IBDAS

Heading

Direction4

(deg)

(deg)

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ONTRETERE

Table 43.

Notes:

SF rom ground zero.
bone kilometer equals 3,281 feet.
“Indirect Bomb Damage Assessment.

The Test
The UNION cloud reached an altitude of about 94,000 feet
(Figure 83).

Cloud travel was influenced by three winds.

(28.65 km)

The low-altitude

portion moved toward the west, the middle portion moved east-northeast, and
the mushroom cap is believed to have moved to the north and west.

None of

the cloud-tracking aircraft made contact with fallout from the cloud mushroom cap

(Reference 16, Tab N, p.

CONTAMINATION.

33).

The Wilson 2 and Wilson 3 flights, in the air until

about H+13, detected no contamination moving toward Enewetak or Ujelang,
and at H+15 Wilson 2 proceeded to monitor the upwind sector of the pattern.

ingly, PC-1546 was ordered to move south out of the area and return to BiKini.

An early report (H+3)

from a sampling aircraft indicated an aerial

reading in the roentgen-per-hour range 10 nmi
290

(18.5 km)

south of the shot

amen

Wilson 2 noted low-level contamination in the vicinity of Rongelap; accord-

Select target paragraph3