+ « « 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. - 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 @® 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. 123