OPERATION CROSSROADS 75 YEARS AGO To mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Crossroads in 2021, I’ve launched a series of posts lifted from the pages of Bill McGee’s Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946. The posts are a retrospective of Crossroads as witnessed by Bill — a mix…
OPERATION CROSSROADS 75 YEARS AGO To mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Crossroads in 2021, I’ve launched a series of posts lifted from the pages of Bill McGee’s Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946. The posts are a retrospective of Crossroads as witnessed by Bill — a mix of…
OPERATION CROSSROADS 75 YEARS AGO To mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Crossroads in 2021, I’ve launched a series of posts lifted from the pages of Bill McGee’s Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946. The posts are a retrospective of Crossroads as witnessed by Bill — a…
OPERATION CROSSROADS 75 YEARS AGO To mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Crossroads in 2021, I’ve launched a series of posts lifted from the pages of Bill McGee’s Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946. The posts are a retrospective of Crossroads as witnessed by Bill — a mix…
Operation Crossroads 75th Anniversary Posts This post is the first in a series titled Operation Crossroads 75th Anniversary Posts. I’ve selected some of my favorite passages from Bill McGee’s naval memoir, Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account, Bikini Atomic Bomb Tests 1946. Come aboard the USS Fall River for Bill’s first-person chronicle of his participation at one of…