OPERATION REDWING TALE:

PIM:

PPG ‘time
31 May 1956

OG6LS

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Erie

GMT
30 May 1956

Sponsor:

1315

SITE:

LASL

PPG - Eniwetok - Yvonne

11° 32"
162° 21'

Lo"
52"

Site elevation:
HEIGH? OF BURST:

WN
E

Sea level

300 ft

TOWER OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Tower burst over coral soil

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT:
32,000 ft MSL
CLOUD BOTTOM IRIGHT:
10,000 ft MSL

REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
These were obtained
from aerial and ground surveys made by the Radiclogical Safety

organization at H+} hours.

The t-l*® decay approximation was used

to extrapolate the dose-rate readings to Ht+tl hour.

Yvonne in the atoll were only slightly contaminated.

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