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Appendix B: Particpant Description (DNA memorandum dated July 11, 1994)
Pages 99-104

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... B Participant Description (DNA Memorandum dated July 1 1, 1 994)
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... However, their crews, which had been evacuated to support ships, could not permanently return to their home ships because the ships had either sunk or were too severely damaged or contaminated to be remanned. Most of the crews of the unremanned target ships were shipped as passengers back to Kwajalein, Pearl Harbor and California west coast ports.
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... Army personnel also performed duties ashore at Bikini; however, available records do not document the specific activities of individuals ashore so these periods cannot be accounted for. Small segments of records have never been recovered and some units were so small that they never maintained individual records, e.g., small Navy vessels, such as "yard" craft with small crews, never maintained deck logs or crew lists.
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... REFINEMENT OF THE INITIAL DATA BASE In the initial data collection effort for this project over 2,500 sailors had incomplete names and were missing other essential data such as service numbers and rate/ratings. Through an extensive effort which involved ordering over 600 personnel records from the National Personnel Records Center in St.
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... ENGINEER RATINGS Sailors who served below decks in engineering ratings (specialties) in close proximity to a ship's piping and evaporators had higher potential levels of radiation exposure, and thus received higher reconstructed doses than their nonengineering rated shipmates.
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... TF-1) MEDICAL RESEARCH PERSONNEL, BOARDING TEAM AND RADSAFE TEAMS Operation CROSSROADS was conducted under the command and control of CJTF-1.
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