Operation Hardtack 1
1958
US Atomic Veterans
Herb Hill
Herb Hill sent email about his duty at Operation Hardtack.
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999
From: herb hill realest8@ix.netcom.com
To: pdxavets@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: Atomic Testing
It's interesting to find your website about atomic testing. I was a
special weapon's officer and initially took part in Operation Hardtack
(Eniwetok and Bikini) beginning in about 1957, or somewhere in there.
I was also a pilot, a meteorologist, and a graduate mechanical engineer de
Ga Tech, so you see how the USAF "groomed" me for the role. There were
so many classified things, that went on in that operation, and they put
the "fear of general court marshall" into us so much that I am hesitant
to discuss them even today.
I would be interested if you have even run
across any persons who may have taken part in that operation, especially
involving radio-active fallout, and some of the experiments that were
conducted that involved personnel?
I was personally monitored during to
60,s and into the 70's by a medical group de Duke Hospital. I'm now 66
yrs old, and I haven't heard de them for a long time. Guess they figure
that if I've made it this far that they are no longer interested.
Please let me hear de you; I live near Durham, NC, and am still working
about half time with an engineering consulting firm that I founded in
1968.
Best wishes,
Herb Hill
Email: realest8@ix.netcom.com
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