VII

aircraft participated though weather was worse than usual with huge

cloud build-ups and heavy rain squalls,

Five B-57 aircraft and five

F.~8),6 aircraft sampled again with one B-57 control aircraft,

APACHE. On 9 July at 0606 hours, : NT20vice
fired from a barge off Eniwetok,

Thirty-five aircraft performed without

difficulty including four B-57 and four F-8 samplers with one B-57 control
Pp

lane,

, 4D

NAVAJO. NAVAJOwas oMEREdevice detonated on 11 July at 0556
hours, another barge shot at Bikini Atoll,

Of the thirty-five aircraft

performing as scheduled;-fourvere B-57 and another four were F-8
samplers, plus controller,
TEWA,

yield,

"

Another device fired from a barge at Bikini, TEWA was high-

It occurred on 21 July at O56 hours,

Twenty-four aircraft took

part with four each of the B-57 and F-8i samplers.

Again, pilots

encountered no difficulties,
HURON. The last shot of the REDWING series detonated on 22 July

at 0616 hours,

Twenty-one aircraft perforned without incident.

They

included three B-57 and four F-8) samplers with the B-57 control plane,
ag usual,”
On only two occasions during Operation REDWING did the radiological
safety officers detect unusual fallout.

Following the MOHAWK Shot, less

than 50 milliroentgens per individual was indicated,

Considerable fallout

occurred after TEWA, however, generally over the Eniwetok lagoon and atoll
areas,

Officials performed constant monitoring of areas during the night

*See Appendix II for number of samples taken ohm each shot.

1g
AFWL/HO

8g

SWEH-2-003,

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