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Seminole, Flathead, and Dakota were shot at Runit.
were anxious to get started,
Since we
the Erie was the second shot on
Runit, some three weeks after LaCross, three weeks being necessary to build a new tower and instrument it.
The Seminold on
Bogon was fired then as soon as possible after the Erie.
As
I mentioned, the Mohawk on Zberiru must be the last shot; Yuma,
Inca, and Kickapoo were detonated as available,
On Bikini, the Cherokee was essentially an effects shot,
concerned with fall-out and structures and, hence, had to be
fired first,
since the instrumentation would be adversely af-
fected by an earlier shot,
The Zuni installation on Eninman
would not suffer seriously from the Cherokee but would be
serlously damaged from a barge shot at Yorichi; therefore, the
Zuni shot was the second shot at Bikini,
From then on, the
order depended essentially on the readiness of the device,
I would like now to deseribe for you something of the
sequence of events preceding the high-yield shot you are about
to see.*
Until about D-day minus four days (D
-4) most of
the personnel at Bikini except those in the Navy Task Group,
live ashore, usually in a tent close to their place of work,
At that time,
however,
they start moving to the ships,
to the CURTISS and AINSWORTH,
largely
The caps are gradually reduced
in size, tents and other equipment being removed from various
exposed islands during D -4, D -3, D -2 until on D <2 only a
bare skeleton is left ashore,
ete,)
The equipment (tractors, trailers,
that must be used again 1g moved to protected areas in
Bikini, the rest are shipped back to Eniwetok,
A111 personnel
no longer needed at Bikini are moved to Eniwetok,
*Note: For illustrative purposes, the sequence of events preced~
ing a high-yield shot at Bikini is set forth in this paper,
If
the Foreign Observers will see a low-yield shot, appropriate
changes to this section would be made,
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Appendix "B"