OPERATION REDWING -

DATE:

TIME:

Pra Time

22 June 1956

O626

Llackfoot
Sponsor:

MT

12 June 1956

1826

SITE:

LAS

PPG ~-

Eniwetok - Yvonne

11° 33!
162° 21'

Oh"
31"

Site elevation:
HEIGHT OF BU.i:

ON
&

Sea level

200 Ft

TYPE OF BURST AND PLACEMENT:
Vower burst over coral soil

CLOUD TOP HETGHT:
25,000 ft MSL
CLOUD BOTTOM HeIGHn:
14,000 ft MSL

REMARKS:
Only island dose-rate readings are available.
These were obtained
from aerial and ground surveys made by the Radiological Safety orpranization.
Whe t-l+? decay approximation was used to extrapolate the

dose-rate readings to H+l hour.
Heavy contamination from this shot,
fired on central Yvonne, was limited primarily to the shot island.
However, the photo tower on Mack was highly contaminated from the
fallout.

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