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The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads

Operation Crossroads

Review – THE MARSHALL ISLANDS JOURNAL

A big thank-you to Giff Johnson, editor, The Marshall Islands Journal … Click to read the review as a PDF file  

June 17, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.
Don't Overthink It... a writer's desk

The morning after (the book is published)

June 8, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.

Hot-off-the-press! “Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget!”

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.  

June 7, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.
Baker bomb blast at Operation Crossroads.

Watch – “Atomic Vets” video by RetroReports

“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.

June 1, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.

Cover Reveal – “Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget!”

COMING JUNE 2016 IN TIME FOR THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY 

May 25, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.

Reviewing the proof copy of “Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget!”

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.…

May 17, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.

The idea for Bill McGee’s military memoir, “Operation Crossroads, Lest We Forget! An Eyewitness Account”

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…

January 4, 2016 in The Atomic Age, Operation Crossroads.

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