“MARSHALL ISLANDS POPULATION.
Estimates for exposures to bdth U.S.
:rsonnel and Marshall Islanders were made in the Project 4.1
ter-action
‘sort
population
(Reference 65)
and have been used here.
The unevacuated
.. Ailuk was not included in the Project 4.1 information, but
may be
‘.aply estimated by comparing the intensity of the readings ma
at Ailuk
and nearby Utirik at nearly the same time on 2 March.
All of these have been summed up in Table 25, which present
the total
collective exposure as a result of BRAVO and how it was distribted among
jroups.
Comment on this table appears in Chapter ll.
=ADIATION EFFECTS AND MEDICAL OBSERVATION
wr TASK FORCE PERSONNEL
The Rongerik detachment of 28 that was evacuated to Kwajalejn by air
came in two groups, the first eight arriving at approximately 1400 hours
and the second group at about 1830 hours.
Upon arrival the men were checked for the presence of radio
terials on their bodies.
There they showered to remove the mat
first group had from 7 to 11 showers and the second group had 5
contamination present and the decontamination results of the sh
Shown in Table 26.
After about a week at Kwajalein, the Air Force and Army perspnnel
evacuated from Rongerik were returned to Enewetak Atoll
(Referenfe 15):
It was decided by higher headquarters to bring the 28
personnel to Enewetak for further physical examination
and to relieve the Kwajalein Hospital, whose facilities
were limited in the field of radiological medicine, of
the responsibility of those men. The first group arrive:
8 March and the remainder followed the next day, and ali
were quartered in the Enewetak Post Infirmary where dail
blood counts and physical checks were instituted.
On 17 March the group was moved back to Kwajalein to be "exanfined by
specialists in radiological medicine in a location more remote frm the
possibility of future contamination"
(Reference 15).
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