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was asked to transmit more information. He immediately |
sent his only reading, "340 at 250 feet altitude," but this message
arrived as "340 mr/hr at 250."
Colonel
and Lt Colonel
Following a hasty conference between
", Task Group 7.4 Tech Projects
Officer, Captain
wag notified to disregard the "no evacuation" message and report the radiological situation at Rongerik.
Captain
finally landed at Rongerik at 1130 hours and
quickly took the following readings:
Inside buildings ..........0.6
Outside buildings .........41.8
Outside buildings ....... . . 2.4
Surface of one bed in tent .... . 1.2
One inch from ground surface ... . 3.2
Captain
r/hr
r/hr (waist height)
r/hr (sand surface)
r/br
rf/hr
immediately decided to evacuate.
He loaded
eight of the twenty-eight men aboard the Navy plane and started for /¢
Kwajalein.
He then sent a reading of 3.2 r/hr at one inch to TG 7.4,
but this message was never received. The other twenty people were ©
evacuated by PBM and arrived at Kwajalein about 1900 on 2 March.
Shortly after arriving at Kwajalein, Captain
sent the
following message to TG 7.4: "Suggest immediate survey of inhabited
islands of Rongerik. High possibility exists that- immediate steps
must be taken to evacuate natives."
islands followed shortly.
Survey and evacuation of these
(SECRET, B/D)
Above material was taken from Memo for Record by Colonel
\, Technical Advisor to the Comdr, TG 7.4, 14 April 1954,
subj:
“Evacuation of Rongerik after Shot BRAVO, Operation CASTLE."
On file in TG 7.4 Classified Document Section.
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/oV