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Subject: Itinerary of Training Group. MMOWiUM to t 1-eFiles, Ledical Section. f Commnder af Task Force Gne officers will be organized. 1. In compliance with orders frornthe for training in medical s.sfety ad radiation monitoring. This g~oup, under the comumd of Colonel S. L. Warren, will be composed of eight (8) medical officers attached to the kanhattan En “neer District from the rU.S. Navy; two (2) medical officers attached unassigned) to the I&n- - hattan Engineer District from the Army Air Forces; two (2) medical officers attached to the Lk.nhattanWgineer District from the U.S. Public rank and serial number of all officers.) 2. Formal training of this group xill begin on 15 January 1%6, January preliminary theoretical inaoctrfiation in basic physics and hazards in plant production will be discussed b~ the L.edical Arectors of Carbide & Carbon Chemdcd‘s Corporation and LcInsmto C%emicQ Company plants on the area. Inspection trips throu~h the 10Cal plents of’ Tennessee Eastman Company will be m=de at this time also. 3* Further brief training, pa,rticul~ly in t k biolo~ic aspects of r&diation, will be carried on at ti-eciistrict installations at the University of Rochester and University of Chicago~ In tiqeseinstallations, animal experiments on .inhalation, in~estion ad exposure to uranium ad will be studied.. 4. A short intensive training pro&ram in damage ccdrol aboard ship will,be given the grap in Philadelphia by naval officers. ThiS will also include an inspection of the German cruiser Frinz Eugen at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Particular attention will be paid to safety neasures in control of gases aboard ship. 5* For the above training (paragraphs 3 CSC4) the entire group willn be divided in”two parts. Group I will be in Philadelphia f February, Rochester 17-23 February and C ic?&&,&?$..~$
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MwLsslw-1Itinerary of Training Grou The entire group will reassemble in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and 5 Larch for review of basic nuclear ~hvsics and field instruction in the methods and instruments fm? rsdlation monitoring. ‘Thististruction will be given by Drs. Large, Hempleman, Nolm, Langhan and Hoffmsm at both the project at Los Alamos and the experimental.area at Alamogordo Air Base in New Mexico. Appro~tely one half of the time will be spent at Los Alamcs and one half at Alamogordo. ?O The group, with some probable later additions including physicists and additional physicians, will.leave Los Alamos on or about 25 March 1946 for Berkeley, California, A seven to ten day staging period wiJl take place in Berkeley. During this tine overseas inoculations will be given; instructions in the biologic effects of fission products will be given by Dr. Joseph Hamilton of the University of California Medical ~tiool staff; conferences will be held with the Marine Biolo~ group under the direction of Dr. Lauren Donaldson of the University af llashington;and all arrangements for equipment for the overseas phase of the operations will be completed in Berkeley, 8* The entire radiation safety group will board a hospital ship at either San Francisco or Berkeley between April j ard 8 to proceed to Pearl Harbor in order to join the general Task Force One by 15 April 1946. (Certain civilian monitor personnel and other key military personnel may go by sir from Hamilton Held, California, directly to Kwajalein or Bikini some time after 1 Kay 19&6. 9. Cmferences will be conducted aboard the hospital ship for the purpose of intimately acquainting all monitor personnel with their specific duties. These conferences will continue until the time of the scheduled tests.
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Commander Bugene P. Harris Lt Coi John Me Tslbott Capt Francis E. llonoghue Capt Daniel H. Cahoon Capt Herbert Fnillipsborn Capt Fred A. Bryan