We =e Maximum Permissible Exposure (ire) é for any intividual (other‘then Air Force clout sampler pirots) was ‘eatebiiahed by corr SEVEN at 3.9 roentgens - for the entire ‘operation. |. a 20 March 1954 dppracinately Lb, Naval. . personnel had ‘received dosages between 3 and 369 roentgens, 123 had . dosages excosding3.9 roenbgens. The letter figure includes 3 men - 7 comprising an Lar cren, “whose film badges read approximately 90 roentgens. 6 ca All these represent Somenhat‘ese than 58 of ‘total task group personnels , ‘Anost 108 of total taskK group personnel received dosages of less than . ” maank aa Chie Pe bh Dab b ae maek AD WALL afew TARAOW ” BESTAVAILAGLE MOR% sin irritations wnich’ appeared WEE CLWYY —w to be minorpadtation burns. _They Tere an‘the form of minute, scattered “snLamea Lesions,‘appearingasuallyon theaistline, scalp or necle. .- ‘te burns were treated andstudied, ‘end did not appear to be serious. . “ v * . fj 2 . fa ” - © 5 mn e i. Thorough“Lavestdgationfailed to ‘explain how the‘three*men’ in theLatorem couldhaveFeceived the highdoeagesiniicated by tneis~ -£itm badges; theywere,‘transferredto NavalStation, ‘Brajalein and later "to Tripler ‘aay Hospital‘for observation, ‘They have revealed no’‘syaptons os =spe “, of radtation sickness, the‘less severe‘dosages approaching or exceeding . the PE were received by"nen rsof ‘BATROKO's flight deck crew, and by personnel stationed“kn e CVE's island at shot time; by boat crew, personnel of the Navy Boat Pool; by helicopter pilots and crew chiefs who flew many missions into contaminated areas; and by PHILIP personnel, due to PHILIP's relatively heavy contamination, and her later visit to the contaminated, atolls of Rongelap and Ailingnae to evacuate the 133 tated dl <= .