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Chemical hazards due to carbon monoxide, 

 carbon dioxide, nitrous gases, alcohol and 

 other vapors, ammonia, corrosive acids and 

 alkalies, creosol cleaning solutions. 



Miscellaneous hazards, including contami- 

 nated drinking water and food, escaping 

 gases from chemical warfare munitions, 

 secondary explosions of ammunition or 

 acetylene. 



Enumerating the hazards was simple, but to warn 

 the thousands of men involved and instruct them in 

 safe practice required much planning and thorough 

 training.* Captain Lyon's designation as Safety Ad- 

 viser was a logical one in view of his extensive war- 

 time experience in chemical warfare technology and 

 his close association with the Atomic Bomb Project. 



Colonel S. L. Warren (Army Medical Corps) was 

 made Radiological Safety Adviser to Rear Admiral 

 Parsons and also to Admiral Blandy. His job was the 



* Accidents were very few. No one was injured hy the explosion, 

 and no one was seriously injured even hy indirect effects such as 

 radioactivity . However, jive fatal accidents occurred. A Navy en- 

 listed man, R. L. Mangum, Seaman First Class, drowned on March 

 25, 1946. Captain J. E. Bishop (Army) was killed on June 24, 

 1946, as a residt of being struck hy the propeller of a B-29 which 

 was warming up on the airstrip at Kwajalein. A Navy enlisted 

 man, J . D. Moran, Radioman First Class, was accidentally electro- 

 cuted on July 4, 1946, on the albermarle. Lt. W. H. William 

 (Navy) was killed on July 9, 1946, in an airplane crash on Roi. 

 J. R. Reagan, Seaman First Class, died as a result of methyl alcohol 

 poisoning on July 24, 1946. 



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