2 March: Ate nothing from mess hall. Drank juices from dispensary refrigerator.
Ate flight lunch from first evacuation plane.
Fallout. First noticed at 1500, 1 March. Continued falling after dark. Appeared
as heavy dust on all surfaces.
Film Badge. None (Curbow wore badge in approximately same working area).
Evacuated. In second group (1800, 2 March).
Note: Completed high school.
Indefinite enlistment.
SIEBER, D. A., Cpl, 423
Duty.
Activities. 1 March: Worked in equipment van, developing film, until 1630-1700.
(Equipment van located near Army personnel’s tent.) Bathed outside with buckets at
washstand. Walked path through trees to chow at 1700. Returned to equipment van after
chow and remained in van until 2000. Vas in tent from 2000 until midnight. Moved to
weather equipment building next to radiv shack at midnight.
2 March: Remained indoors as much as possible.
Clothing. Wore shorts until 1530, 1 March. Changed to long clothing.
Food and Drink. Ate evening meal 1 March. Ate breakfast and ad glass of orange
juice at lunch on 2 March. Drank water from 5-gallon covered cans iocated outside Army
tent.
Fallout. Compared particle size to grains of sand. Fallout material white in color,
‘like light ashes.’? Tent became covered with material. Enough fallout material to
coverthumb-nail, when planed on cathode-ray tube (part of ionosphere eq.ipment), caused
that portion of tube to glow. Tube continued to glow in dark, a whitish-pink color. Rain
made material ‘‘run like whitewash,’’ but did not remove it from tent surface.
Film Badge. Positioned inside tent on tent-pole 7 feet above tent flooring. (Sides of
24~man tent kept elevated.).
Linograph-ortho Kodak (Shellburst film) in equipment van, when checked during
evening 1 March, was “ al] blackened at 4 minutes in D19 Developer at 68°. ’’
Evacuated. In second group (1800, 2 March).
Note: Completed high school. Present enlistment complete 11 March 1955.
SMITH, W. D., A/lc, 424
Duty. Radio mechanic, day duty.
Activities. 1 March: Worked until about 1700 (in and outdoors). Took shower after
chow.
2 March: Worked until noon.
Clothing.
:
Wore shorts only until after evening meal, 1 March.
Food and Drink. Ate evening meal, 1 March. Did not eat anything on 2 March
before being evacuated. Did drink water.
Fallout. First observed fallout on tent surface. Does not remember what time it
began. Fallout material on desk surface inside radio shack.
Film Badge. None (Cagle wore badge for group).
Evacuated.
In second group (1800, 2 March).
Note: Completed high school. Present enlistment complete 24 January 1955.
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