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
Carson City, Wed, May 18 – Signing a copy of THE DIVORCE SEEKERS for Randi Hunewill, the great-granddaughter of Neill Hakes West who owned the TH Ranch in Sutcliffe, Nevada, about 30 miles outside of Reno near Pyramid Lake . In 1929, the “TH” was the first ranch in Nevada to take in paying dudes. …
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.…
Bill and I attended the 74th Annual Seabee Ball on Saturday, February 20, 2016, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Bill has written extensively about the Seabees in his WWII military histories and is a Life Member of the Navy Seabee Veterans of America. We were honored to be invited to the VIP…
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…
Dateline: Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-29, 2013 – Hundreds of the country’s top Western writers gathered at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for the Western Writers of America 60th Annual Convention. Western novelists, historians, screenwriters, songwriters, and the agents and editors who represent them, enjoyed five days of Western camaraderie and networking.…
Tales from Reno’s Divorce Ranches on KNPR Bill McGee was interviewed by Dave Becker for “State of Nevada” on KNPR, Nevada Public Radio, March 1, 2011. He was a member of a panel of people who were part of the divorce ranch experience. PROGRAM NOTES: Back in the 1930s and 40s, Nevada was one…
Dateline: Oklahoma City, OK, June 19, 2009 – The Western Writers of America took center stage at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for a Mega-Book Signing on Friday, June 19, 2009. More than 70 Western authors participated in the event set up in the magnificent Sam Noble Special Events Center.…