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November 21st, 2006 | 
Author: Operation Crossroads Ships Sunk During Test Bakeron 25 July 1946
Battleships
USS Arkansas (BB-33)
Nagato (captured Japanese battleship)
Aircraft Carriers
USS Saratoga (CV-3)
Submarines
USS Apogon (SS-308)
USS Pilotfish (SS-386)
Auxiliary
ARDC-13
Landing Craft
LSM-60 (Surface Zero Ship)
District Craft
YO-160
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The following target ships were sunk during Test Able of Operation Crossroads on 1 July 1946
Heavy Cruisers
Sakawa (captured Japanese heavy cruiser)
Destroyers
USS Anderson (DD-411)
USS Lamson (DD-367)
Attack Transports
USS Carlisle (APA-69)
USS Gilliam (APA-57)
Duck and Cover is perhaps the most famous of the Cold War era civil defense films. Any child growing up during this era – the 50s – probably remembers watching Bert the Turtle educate them about atomic civil defense.
While the world has certainly changed dramatically from those days, the threat of a mass destruction device on a large city is still very real and it is good to be educated about what could happen and what steps you could take to ensure your maximum safety during an emergency – whether it be a natural disaster or a man made terrorist/war type disaster.
FEMA has a ton of information on a variety of civil defense related issues including:
* Chemical
* Dam Failure
* Earthquake
* Fire
* Flood
* Haz. Material
* Heat
* Hurricane
* Landslide
* Nuclear
* Terrorism
* Thunderstorm
* Tornado
* Tsunami
* Volcano
* Wildfire
* Winter Storm
If you live in an area where one of these types of events could occur, it may be wise to take a few minutes to review their civil defense procedures for that type of disaster so you can be better prepared for that eventuality.
The chestnut tree that comforted Anne Frank while she was hiding from the Nazi’s in occupied Holland will be cut down soon according to the Amsterdam city council. The tree, approximately 150 years old, has recently been attacked by an agressive fungus and a Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner moth and is in very poor shape. The sickness is so bad that the tree is dying from the inside out.
The tree was made famous in Anne Frank’s book, “The Diary of Anne Frank” which has been ready by an estimated 25 million people. Anne describes how she often looked out the attic window and how it gave her hope during those dark days prior to her capture.
Anne Frank died in March 1945 of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
With so much talk nowadays about an atomic Iran and atomic North Korea and the recent weapons test over there, it is is interesting to look at some of our own historic nuclear tests to see how they were done – and to get an understanding of how devastatingly powerful a nuclear bomb – exploded aboveground – really is.
The government has a huge archive of early atomic weapon film clips – including the very famous Able and Baker atomic blasts. There are small clips of each film available on the site and videos of the entirety of each test can be purchased for a very reasonable sum.
