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All ships evacrcted the Lagoon
en tke afterncon cf minus one and returned sbout 2& hours Jeter. Enincen airstfip
was found to be covered vith debris which prevented its immediate une for C-L7
ebhuttie flizhts.
It was cleered tc a width of 18 feet fuli Lengvr by 3% april.
‘First sazplesa arrived at Esivetok cn sche merning of 27 Sorili.
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fF disclosed -+: persens at Enivetok and 178 ay Sikir:.
2. a «-:: scke@uled fcr 14 Aprii, and tad been given all the
uBusl] Dreperetory arrangements.
Cn 12 jipril en ince?iaize postponement vas,
annersced, ena on 13 April
cancelled.” Diezantiing of the
URSULA cemp began immediately and was completed on 18 April.
The primry
comrcnents of the device, and their Qumzy ccunter-parta were recurred to storege
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en 14% April
and ultimately returned +o the ZI.
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3-SI, te ficth event of the casTIe series, vad
detonated § Mey 54, on a barge moored in Bikini lagoon. This device was carried from the assembly area barge slip on Parry to the Bikini lagocn on 1
May 54 on the LSD BELLE GROVE.
Preparatory vork vas entirely ship-based,
supported by tke shipe ESTES, CURTISS, BAIROKO, AINSWORTH, and others.
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feted 344 persons at Eniwetok end 152 et. Bikini):
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All ships
deperted the legoon during the afternoon on minus 1 and seturced about 24 hours
later.
A radiologicel sefety survey’of tke atoll was mede on the afternoon of
Shot Bey.
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