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1. Arrived Xvajalein 1000 hours and hed an tenediate conferencevin <a whee

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Resr Adziral Clarke, 00, Naval Station Yvajalsta a a

Brig. General Estes, Commander, Task Group 7.4 .

Dr. Thomas White, Health Division, LASL

COR L. BR, Alford, USH, CO USS KEESHAY (DmS 499).

Keabere ef Adairal Clarke's Staff

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The weather station éet.chnent at Rongerik vas, evacnated by

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The DUE PRILLIFs entered the lagoon at Roncelap at daylight,

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2 Karch, enchored near the villege enc evecusted at that place.

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of co: ree, wer easy comvered with thet at Utirik which took place on the ies Ca,
side of the atoll crar the resf in open een,

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The BLE FENSRAY evacusted the matives ef Utirik at destirht,

‘The DUE was unsble to exter the lacoom.

Lending perties went achore .

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ky wotor wile bo.t and raft and were met by Trust Territory Representatives — _..

ard inter;ret+re who hed arrived by esecclane from Fvajalein, All natives on
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Utirik were promrtly evacasted to the destroyer where all Dat the old and
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feeble were given a bath, The children were scrubbed down first and thereafter —
the erowr peomle entered the shovers, The oe
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Celight in playing erouné in the water.
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te Aboard the REESHAW the natives: were fea fiehant ries ant ioe .
cream ami ate he-rtily. They were returned directly to Ywejalein where they a
were @mcine’t by medical peorle ané quartered temporarily in a vecant barracks, .
They are to be moved to a native villege where they vill be quartered in teats
furniehed by JTF S7VEH. Yo eickmese wes cbserved, aor vas any expected, due

0 the ecorreratively low radfologies] expomure of this group. Eovever, {t ves
reported that sore emsil children, after arrival at Feejalein, shoved 2 loas of ©
appetite,

This fe attributed by the medical officere #: the ehange ef diet =

end antive food is being obtalr.ed fren the nearby native settlerent on the
island next to eer Teland. -

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