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Bunker Hill as a stationary electronics test platform, 1967. On 27 September 1945, Bunker Hill sailed from Bremerton to report for duty with the Operation Magic Carpet fleet, returning veterans from the Pacific as a unit of TG 16.12. The vessel made return trips to the west coast from Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and Guam and Saipan.
The destroyer USS English went alongside Bunker Hill, to help in the fighting of fires and to take off Vice Admiral Mitscher, transferring his flag to the newly repaired carrier Enterprise. Of Bunker Hill's crew, 352 were killed, 264 were wounded and 41 were missing. Hundreds of crewmen had been either blown overboard or were forced to jump to ...
Explosion, contamination of worker An explosion at the Hanford site Plutonium Finishing Plant blew out a quarter-inch-thick lead glass window. Harold McCluskey, a worker, was showered with nitric acid and radioactive glass. He inhaled the largest dose of 241 Am ever recorded, about 500 times the U.S. government occupational standards. The ...
Now, in the wake of the explosion, Hubbard blasted Rising S, which had built the Red River bunker. "They don't know what the hell they're doing," he said. "They're friggin' idiots."
Neighbours said they heard a woman screaming and an explosion immediately before the fire, reported CBS News. According to KCAL-TV news, the woman was an elementary teacher in Palmdale, California.
The remains of all 67 people who were killed in the Washington, D.C. plane crash last week have been recovered, authorities announced Tuesday, adding that all but one of the victims has been ...
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