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Amazing image of the Able shot at Bikini Atoll, showing the explosion’s neamess to the small land mass. Between 1946 and 1958, there were 23 nuclear devices detonated at various spots on, within, above, or beneath Bikini Atoll. Operation Crossroads was an attempt to better understand the effects of atomic weapons on naval targets. (National Archives)

OTHER FEATURES:

DEATH OF THE BIKINI FLEET
Operation Crossroads gathered an unprecedented fleet of American, German, and Japanese warships in a remote section of the Pacific Ocean. The purpose of this assembly was to test the effectiveness of America’s newly emerging atomic bomb technology / by Nicholas A. Veronico

INTO THE WINDS OF HELL
After months of boring escort duty, this destroyer’s crew received a rude awakening as the harsh realities of battle were realized in their baptism of fire / by William McCrevan

WARRINGTON VS. THE HURRICANE
How did this US Navy destroyer and four other ships sail directly into the worst Atlantic hurricane in a decade? Nearly 400 officers and men would die in one of the odder blunders of WWII / by Owen Gault

SS AMERICA
Saga of a great American steaship – from ocean liner, to troopship, back to ocean liner, and finally concluding its glorious history with a tragic ending / by Robert J. Cressman

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