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mess on board the Bairoko and to operate the helicopter lift
the carrier.
stem from
Seventeen personnel from HMR-362 received exposures of more
than 3.9 R (with a maximum of 5.5 R)
because of the heavy fal
Bairoko encountered after shot BRAVO.
Consequently, CTG 7.3 xr
that these individuals be given an MPE waiver to avoid impairi
operations.
The Consolidated List for VC-3 includes only five of the nine pilots;
enlisted maintenance personnel are not shown.
personnel,
It is assumed that these
if badged, were included in some other list, perhap
Bairoko's list.
However, their duty stations would have been
F4U aircraft at Enewetak after shot BRAVO.
the
ith the six
Table 23, which prg@vides ac-
cumulated radiological exposure of TG 7.3 personnel by ships agd units as
of 22 March 1954, shows VC-3 with 20 personnel.
lowest category, 9.0 to 0.999 R.
All personnelfare in the
VC-3 ground personnel could
to have radiological exposures similar to or lower than the Ai
ground personnel, who also operated out of the Enewetak air faqgility.
There is no record of VC-3 flight missions into areas of potenfial radior
logical exposure.
Task Unit 7.3.3 (Patrol Plane Unit)
This unit consisted of Patrol Squadron VP-29 with twelve PavV-6 Neptune
aircraft, a P2V-5 Neptune assigned to Project 6.4, a P4Y-2 Privateer aircraft assigned to Project 1.4, and two specially configured PBM-5A Mariner
aircraft.
The patrol squadron was based at the Naval Air Stat
Kwajalein, for the duration of CASTLE.
‘The other four aircraf
n (NAS),
operated
from the Enewetak Island airstrip at Enewetak Atoll.
VP-29 flew security sweeps of the PPG danger area to warn
Sient shipping and aircraft prior to shots.
The squadron also
diological reconnaissance missions in the northern Marshall Is
nds in
support of the AEC's World Wide Fallout Monitoring Program (se
Table 68).
VP-29 assisted in locating Project 2.5a fallout-collector buoys
The two
PBMs, operating under the control of TG 7.4 (Air Force), were specially
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