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units of the Surface Security Unit.
These atolls were also surfeyed and
resurveyed in order to establish the degree of contamination, a§d to establish how the fallout may have been taken up in the food chaig
by plants
and animals.
were still
This required several returns to the atolls, whicl})
radiologically hot enough to require that shore parties be badgdd.
activities are summarized
Table 66.
Dates
These
in Table 66.
CASTLE evacuation and resurvey activities, March-April 1954.
Ship
Activity
Location(s)
3 Mar
Phili
DDE-498)
Evacuation
Rongelap and Ailinginae cE
4 Mar
Renshaw
(DDE-499)
Evacuation
Utirik Atoll
5-8 Mar
Renshaw
(DDE-499)
Resurvey
6 March: Likiep, Jemo Islafid, and
Ailuk Atoll; 7 March: Meji—f Island
8-12 Mar
Nicholas
(DDE-449)
Resurvey
9 March: Utirik and Aon Isffands at
Utirik Atoll, and Bikar Isl@nd at
,
Bikar Atoll; 10 March: Enew@tak Island
Island at Rongerik Atoll, agd Ailinginae Atoll; 11 March: northérn RongeJap Atoll
25-26 Mar
Nicholas
Resurvey
21-23 Apr
Phil
Resurvey
Source:
(DDE-449)
DDE-498)
Rongelap Atol]
21-23 April:
23 April:
Rongelap Atol];
Ailinginae Atoll
Reference 16, Appendix H.
Rongerik remained too radioactive for continuous occupancy affter BRAVO
and required evacuation because of the contamination of the weather station and the Project 6.6 station there.
However, because JTF 7
required weather information from this station, it was operated
tently to make daylight soundings before shots ROMEO and KOON by
flown in and out by seaplane.
ill
ifhtermitPersonnel
For shots UNION and YANKEE, personhel were
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