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 {| class="wikitable" ! ABLE !! colspan=2 | BAKER
 * + Table 11. Target ships sunk at CROSSROADS
 * USS Anderson (DD-411) || USS Arkansas (BB-33) || ARDC-13
 * USS Carlisle (APA-69) || LSM-60 || USS Apogon (SS-308)
 * USS Gilliam (APA-57) || USS Pilotfish (SS-386) || Nagato
 * USS Lamson (DD-367) || YO-160 || USS Saratoga (CV-3)
 * ''Sakawa || ||
 * }
 * USS Lamson (DD-367) || YO-160 || USS Saratoga (CV-3)
 * ''Sakawa || ||
 * }
 * ''Sakawa || ||
 * }

Notes:

Source: Reference A.1, pp. 130-132; Reference C.9.2, pp. 32-33.

Three air-sea rescue B-17s patrolled the area between Enewetak and Bikini to protect the six drone-control B-17 crews. Four drone-sampler B-17s took part in the test. Two were flown over surface zero at detonation time, one at 6,000 feet (1.83 km) and one at 16,000 feet (4.68 km). The one at 6,000 feet (1.83 km) had its bomb bay doors warped, its inspection plates blown open, the tail gunners hatch blown inside the aircraft, the canvas cover over the tail wheel split, and the standard aircraft cushions inside split open. The other B-17 drone jumped 300 feet (91 meters) in altitude but sustained no damage. The third B-17 drone sampled in the cloud at 7,000 feet (2.13 km) 5 minutes after the burst, and the fourth B-17 drone sampled above the cloud at 11,000 feet (3.35 km) 7-1/2 minutes after the burst. Three Navy F6F drones and their twelve F6F controllers took off from Shangri-La and sampled at altitudes of 14,000, 9,000, and 5,000 feet (4.27, 2.74, and 1.52 km). Only the drone at and all aircraft returned safely to base (Enewetak for the B-17s and Roi for the F6Fs). The airbags and filters were removed by Los Alamos Laboratory personnel and transported in the waiting C-54s to Kwajalein for analysis.

Eight B-29s and three WB-29s participated in shot BAKER. The radio broadcast, press, and command B-29s orbited the area accomplishing their mission at a safe distance. The two pressure-gauge drop B-29s dropped their gauges from 24,000 and 25,000 feet (7.32 and 7.62 km) just before the detonation. The two radiological reconnaissance B-29s tracked and photographed the remnants of the cloud until almost 1400 when they were relieved by two other B-29s. The three WB-29s were airborne by 0231 the morning of the detonation to report on cloud cover and other weather phenomena north and east of Bikini until 0500, when they returned to Bikini to provide current weather reports at that location. The three C-54 and eight F-13 Army aircraft were involved with transporting observers and photography (Reference C.9.206, Part VII, p. E195 through E207). All aircraft except the F6F had radsafe monitors aboard. As at Test

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