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 APPENDIX A A C T I V I T I E S OF P A R T I C I P A T I N GN A V YV E S S E L S DURINGOPERATIONCROSSROADS

This appendix lists the 153 support ships,84 target ships, and other Navy craft that participated in Operation CROSSROADS. Their crew complements, the dates of their arrival at and departure from Bikini, their distances from the two shots, and their postshot dispositions are given. Crew sizes and Bikini departure dates may vary somewhat from data in Tables 31 and 32 (Chapter 121, which are based on somewhat more expanded research. Activities that are considered important to the conduct of the operation or that had radiological significance are included. Excluded was information on those days that the log entries reflected only routine operations. For example, all ships left Bikini Lagoon on July 18 and 19 for the test BAKER rehearsal, but reference to the rehearsal has been omitted in the ships' activity schedule in this appendix. The ships are listed alphabetically. The information in this appendix has been extracted primarlly from each ship's log (Reference 1)* but has been been supplemented by material from logs of other ships and other documents. Information given without citation to a own log. Among the other docureference may be assumed to be from the ship's ments useful in compiling this Appendix were two specified in the CROSSROADS OpPlan for each target vessel. These were the Major Damaqe Report (often referred to as "Report No. 5") (Reference 21,and the Cornandins Officers Report (often referred to as "Report No. 11") (Reference 3). In addition, the commanding officer of each target vessel wrote a report summarizing decontamination activities (Reference 4). Throughout the description of the ships' movements, reference is made to the numbered berths and named lagoon-patrol sectors within Bikini Lagoon and named operating areas outside the lagoon. The berths were numbered from1 in the northwestern portion of the anchorage area to 386 In the southeastern area. The berths were arranged in long, somewhat irregular west-to-east rows. There were in addition berths near Eneu Island designated by letters or their phonetic equivalent, e.g., Ablefor A, Jig for J, Oboe for 0, etc. Figure A.l shows the berths and their relationship to the islands of the atoll and the target fleet area. The lagoon-patrol sectors within the lagoon important during reentry were designated with names of various countries. The sectors were centered on the surface zeropoint and are shown on Figure A.2. The operating areas outside Bikini Lagoon used by the ships during the tests were designated with the names of historic automobile manufacturers. These are also shown in Figure A.2.

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