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Re: Martelli Table Provenance
From: Robert Wyatt
Date: 2020 Feb 24, 09:37 -0600
From: Robert Wyatt
Date: 2020 Feb 24, 09:37 -0600
Wikipedia agrees with your guess:
"Arkansas was expended as a target in Operation Crossroads, a pair of nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946."
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"Arkansas was expended as a target in Operation Crossroads, a pair of nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in July 1946."
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| Fate: | Sunk on 25 July 1946, as part of Operation Crossroads |
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Greg Rudzinski wrote:
Greg Rudzinski wrote:
One of the Martelli tables in my collection has USS Arkansas with initials J.A.L. on the inside front cover so just for fun a Google search was done and to my surprise the USS Arkansas was caught on camera during the Crossroads A bomb test at Bikini Island in July of 1946. I am guessing that this was the battleships last mission.
Greg Rudzinski
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