On "P=2" Day, 6 April, all personnel except generator watches,
signal equipment operators, security details and key scientists were
evacuated from the three zero islands to Eniwetok, and all personnel
were removed from the two Zero Islands not to be tested the following
(minus one) day.
Except for some minor work and cleanup, construction
on Engebi and Aoman was considered complete at this time, and little
Army Task Group construction remained to be done on Runit.
On "P-1" Day, the evacuation groups were embarked from iniwetok
as per the plan issued by CTG 7.2.
The normal evacuation for Parry
Island had taken place on minus two days.
Standby personnel on Eniwetok
and Parry, including key utility personnel, security forces, special
equipment operators, drone control, light aviation and RadSafe personnel
all remained ashore to carry out their missions.
"Embarkation Plans"
for all test days proved to be virtually the same, and only one of
them is attached to this report.
Units were checked aboard their respective ships by representatives of the Iscom S-3 and were accounted for again by muster after
arriving aboard ship, and necessary reports made to Hq, JIF 7.
One important task of TG 7.2 was to water down the coral runway
on Eniwetok so that the vision of ground control crews of the Drone
Planes would not be obscured by dust raised during the drone takeoffs.
An average of about 10,000 gallons of sea water was used for wetting
down the strip for each test operation.
The practice "P" Day of 8 April was a success and later in the
morning the ships re-entered the lagoon and commenced discharging
their passengers about noon.
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