Las Vegas, Nevada, September 14, 2016 – The National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) held their annual convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAAV was founded in 1979 for the purpose of assisting America’s atomic veterans secure proof of their exposure to ionizing radiation while on active duty. The convention hotel was located within walking distance…
A big thank-you to Diane Smith of the Belvedere-Tiburon The Ark for today’s front page story … Read the full story at The Ark, July 27, 2016
A big thank-you to Zach Morris, Editor in Chief of Scuttlebutt, the Official Newsletter of the United States LST (Landing Ship, Tank) Association, for the following publicity in the June 2016 issue …
There are many books written about the development of the atomic bomb. Thanks to a comment on our website by author Dean Warren, Bill and I read his memoir, THE BOMB AND ITS DEADLY SHADOW: A MEMOIR. Mr. Warren was a participant at Operation CROSSROADS in 1946. Furthermore, his father, Dr. Stafford L. Warren, was…
National publicity for Operation Crossroads – Lest We Forget! officially launched online at 3 a.m. today … Read the press release at PRWeb 6-20-2016
A big thank-you to Giff Johnson, editor, The Marshall Islands Journal … Click to read the review as a PDF file
Author and atomic veteran Bill McGee (left) delivers the first, hot-off-the-press print edition of Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! to Mel Owen, San Francisco attorney and yachtsman. Available on Amazon in Print and Kindle eBook editions.
“ATOMIC VETS” produced by RetroReports… an informative 13-minute video released May 29, 2016. Dr. F. Lincoln Grahlfs, who wrote the Foreword to Bill McGee’s Operation Crossroads – Lest We Forget! and was at Crossroads, gives on-camera commentary. Thank you to the producers at RetroReport for permission to post.
COMING JUNE 2016 IN TIME FOR THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY
Using his visual aids (Bill McGee became legally blind from macular degeneration in 2003), Bill is reviewing his upcoming memoir, Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! using a CCTV (a desktop magnifier that enlarges text and images) to view the pages, and an Eye-Pal Solo (the text-to-speech device on his left) to listen to the text.…
The year 2016 is off to a good start. Part 1 of Bill’s two-part series about his participation at Operation CROSSROADS in 1946 was published in the Winter 2016 edition of the national quarterly magazine of the U.S. Navy Cruiser Sailors Association (USNCSA) … Click on the link to read Operation Crossroads, Part 1, USNCSA…