+ « « Personnel directly in front of the blowers later
developed minor radiation burns on the neck and around
the beltline.
These burns were not immediately discerag-
ible but showed up a few days after exposure.
Success
fully treated as ordinary skin irritations, these burn
were no more serious than to cause some discomfort in fhe
hot climate.
Evacuation, Disposition, and Reentry
BIKINI SHOTS.
standard procedure.
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Bikini personnel evacuations before shots fdllowed a
Once a shot device was armed, no major ships were
permitted within its vicinity.
Eneu Island served as a staging
the personnel who were ashore preparing for a shot.
area for
Ships schefuled to
take on passengers anchored off the island at about 1300 on D-ll
All
passengers were on board before nightfall and in time to conduct a thorough muster.
The following ships received the majority of evachees:
Fred C. Ainsworth:
Curtiss:
H&N construction personnel
scientific and technical personnel
Bairoko:
personnel scheduled for early reentry via
helicopter, such as radsafe monitors, the teams re-
sponsible for restoring basic services in the shore
camps, and firing party boat crews
@
Estes:
staff personnel from the task force and task
group headquarters and their commanders, firing part)
personnel, and, when required, firing party boat cet
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USS Belle Grove:
H&N small craft dispatcher and boa
pool personnel from both TG 7.3 and TG 7.5.
Most ships left the lagoon for their assigned operating areds before
the shot device was armed.
The only exceptions were the Belle
once the firing circuit for the shot device was ready to activa
Grove, the
(Refer-
ence ll, p. 6-5).
After the task group ships cleared the lagoon, they proceed
to as-
signed operating areas in a sector generally southeast of the lagoon.
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