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Tango01 | 07 May 2016 9:24 p.m. PST |
… Atomic Role Revealed. "A team of underwater archaeologists has pieced together information from declassified government documents and a shipwrecked World War II-era naval vessel to understand the secret role played by one of the most historic U.S. aircraft carriers: the USS Independence. The Independence (CVL 22) was one of 90 vessels assigned to Operation Crossroads — the atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands — but it was deliberately sunk, or scuttled, in 1951 and little was known about its career after the atomic bomb tests. After discovering the location of the Independence shipwreck last year, researchers were able to compare sonar images of the wreck with declassified documents to uncover the carrier's use as a radiological laboratory and nuclear waste receptacle from 1946 to 1950….
Main page link The fact that it survived a massive nuclear explosion while only 1,700 feet away from ground zero is interesting!! Amicalement Armand |
Coelacanth1938 | 07 May 2016 11:01 p.m. PST |
Why is there a plane still in the hanger? |
Charlie 12 | 07 May 2016 11:31 p.m. PST |
There isn't. It's just conjecture by whoever labeled the photo. |
Rabbit 3 | 08 May 2016 2:19 a.m. PST |
From what I recall about "Operation Crossroads" I think a few old airframes were placed on the carriers to study the effects of blast and radiation damage on them. So it could be a plane though its not all that clear what that object is in the photo actually is. |
Major Mike | 08 May 2016 5:06 a.m. PST |
Most of the ships survived the first A-bomb test but some had taken lots of cosmetic damage. Here is a list of what happened to all of the ships used in the tests bikiniatoll.com/Ships.html |
EJNashIII | 08 May 2016 7:08 a.m. PST |
Floating and cosmetic are a bit different. Most seen as cosmetic had serious heat related structural issues that made them completely worthless for any operational purposes. That is up and beyond the radiation. |
batesmotel34 | 08 May 2016 7:15 a.m. PST |
link has a picture of the state of the Independence after the tests and before she was sunk. Chris |
GarrisonMiniatures | 08 May 2016 7:41 a.m. PST |
Some things could survive a nuclear bomb going off – one Centurion tank not only survived but later went on to fight in Vietnam: link 'On October 15th, 1953, the Centurion was started up (both the main engine and aux generator), all its systems were activated, and the hatches were closed. The human crew members retreated to a safe distance, and the Totem 1 bomb was set off, with a yield of nine kilotons. This is a relatively low-yield atomic bomb, as such things go; the Hiroshima bomb yielded 13 to 18 kt (a little uncontrolled fission goes a long way). What happened to Centurion 169041? It rolled backward five feet. The side plates that covered the treads were torn off (tank crews often removed these in the field as they became jammed with mud). Some plating and compartments on the outside of the tank were bent and battered, and anything small and light, like antennas, were blown completely off. Some canvas coverings burned away altogether, and all the hatches were blown open. Anything facing the blast was literally sandblasted, which ruined the optics. It was determined that the shockwave would certainly have killed the crew. The engines had shut down, but only because they'd run out of gas. Three days later the crew fired the tank up and drove it back to Woomera. ' |
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