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Shameless Promotion: 75 Years Ago At Bikini
July is the 75th anniversary of the first postwar atomic bomb tests code-named Operation Crossroads. Headline from the San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1946
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Excerpts from Bill McGee’s Atomic Memoir
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Archival Film Footage
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NBC Radio Live from Bikini, Test Baker, 25 July 1946
The late renowned broadcast journalist Don Mozley (left) was one of the on-air voices on NBC’s live broadcast from Bikini (listen to Mr. Mozley at 1:05-1:26). In 2009, Mr. Mozley was the narrator for Bill’s Learning To Cope With Sight Loss. Photo taken at Command Productions, Sausalito, CA, 2009
Thank you for reading this month’s missive and take care…
–Sandra
I remember Don Mozley. A year before Crossroads, I was on a ship with troops and aircraft, zig zagging our way up from Guam to Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines, when I heard about an atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima on AFN. It seemed like science fiction.. Of course, at that time, the big “Next Thing” was to be the invasion of Japan, for which we had no love. The letters “RFI”(Ready For Invasion) were chalked on materiel, which was imminent. DB