Supporting Bikini Atoll Nuclear Testing
In the summer of 1946, Widgeon — as part of Task Unit 1.2.7, the salvage unit of Joint Task Force 1 – supported "Operation Crossroads", the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
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