Operation Hardtack 1
1958
US Atomic Veterans
Donald J. Koestler
Donald J. Koestler sent email about his duty on the USS Monticello.
From: tiepoint@pacbell.net
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999
To: pdxavets@aracnet.com
Subject: I was there
Operation Hardtack
My name is Donald J. Koestler (aka Sweats) I served on the USS
Monticello. I was a radarman and worked in the radar shack.
I think I remember 13 tests in the Marshall Islands at Eniwetok Atoll. I remember the Light, the Heat and the Shockwaves.
Beautiful but deadly.
I remember having to take 7 or 8 showers one after the other until the dosimeter registered zero.
Some of my shipmates were, Leroy Meir, Benny Beneshunas, Glen Hoekstra.
Donald J. Koestler
March 4, 1999
Email: tiepoint@pacbell.net
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