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USS Arkansas (BB-33) was a dreadnought battleship, the second member of the Wyoming class, built by the United States Navy. She was the third ship of the US Navy named in honor of the 25th state, and was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was laid down in January 1910, launched in January 1911, and commissioned into the Navy in ...
Ships that were used as targets by the United States Navy during the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads. Pages in category "Ships involved in Operation Crossroads" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
One of the oldest ships of World War II, she was expended and wrecked in an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, where her wreckage still lies. USS Arkansas (CGN-41), one of four Virginia-class nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers; commissioned in 1980 and decommissioned in 1998.
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. [ 2 ]
In 1946, a year after the war ended, he watched the first U.S. nuclear bomb tests in Bikini Atoll. He was stationed in Billings, where one of his sisters lived, in 1950. There he was, the man of ...
A Sims-class destroyer that was sunk at Bikini Atoll in an atomic bomb test. USS Apogon: 25 July 1946 A Balao-class submarine that was sunk at Bikini Atoll in an atomic bomb test, Operation Crossroads. USS Arkansas: A Wyoming-class battleship that was sunk at Bikini Atoll in an atomic bomb test. USS Barrow: 11 May 1948
USS Arkansas United States Navy: 25 July 1946 [272] Bikini Atoll [273] Capsized under 180 feet (55 m) of water. [273] Participated in Operation Crossroads. [272] Nagato Imperial Japanese Navy: 30 July 1946 [274] Bikini Atoll [275] Capsized under 33.5 meters (110 ft) of water. [276] Participated in Operation Crossroads. [274] USS Pennsylvania ...