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Originally Posted by omon
ok talk to my fater today, he showed me some of books on Prinz Eugen, too bad they are in russian.
in jan 5 1946 beceme a part of usn as ix300, june 9 1946 arived at attol bikini.
june 1 1946 bomber Able droped the n bomb, only paint peeled off, second blast this time underwater did more damage, but not enough to sink it. third n blast made some more damage, it than was towed to island Carlos, where it capsized and sunk, it is still there.
RustyBattleship, i wish you could read russian, i'd give you a lot documentarys to read, adout ships, and anything else, i have accses to tons of it.
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Too bad I can't read Russian since my paternal grandfather was a Cossack.
As for the Bikini tests, there were only TWO bombs, not three. Test Able was an air burst with
Nevada as target. It missed by about a thousand yards but it was not my cousin's fault. The Plutonium bomb on a parachute is extremely INaccurate.
(My cousin was Woodrow Swancutt, the pilot of the plane and a cousin of mine. We listened to his bomb drop on the radio).
The second bomb, test Baker, was a shallow water blast suspended from a landing boat. Because of the extraordinary amount of radiation hazards caused by the radioactive vapor cloud, President Truman cancelled the deep water test that was to be test Charlie.
However, in 1954 preparations and equipment were designed and built at Long Beach Naval Shipyard for a deep water test including three midget submarines set at different distances from the bomb. It was called Operation Wigwam.
I had just hired in to the shipyard as an apprentice ship fitter and did some layout work on the diver's ladder for the Wigwam barge that was to lower the Wigwam bomb. It was a 30-kiloton atomic bomb detonated at a 2,000-foot depth in 16,000 feet of water just 450 miles Southwest of San Diego on 14 May 1955.