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MarkHolloway
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:46 pm
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OPERATION TEAPOT - U.S. Army soldiers who are going to see an atomic blast at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site look over an expendable self-propelled 155mm Howitzer that will stand exposed within 4,000 yards of the burst.The troops will crouch in trenches at H-hour, then move out to see the damage inflicted on the gun by the detonation.
~Photo courtesy of National Nuclear Security Administration / Nevada Site Office

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject: Re: Atom Bomb vs Howitzer
I would say that the troops must have been expendable too. Gesh.

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Atom Bomb vs Howitzer
- JeffStringer I would say that the troops must have been expendable too. Gesh. Makes you wonder what the cancer rates were/are for the guys who took part in these tests. _________________ Chris "toadman" Hughes www.toadmanstankpictures.com www.cafepress.com/toad...ksandstuff

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject: Re: Atom Bomb vs Howitzer
Somebody ID this before I have to look it up! _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Atom Bomb vs Howitzer
- MarkHolloway Somebody ID this before I have to look it up! M53 155mm SP Gun. _________________ Chris "toadman" Hughes www.toadmanstankpictures.com www.cafepress.com/toad...ksandstuff

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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: Atom Bomb vs Howitzer
Yeah, the guys who boarded those ships around Bikini Islands developed those problems.

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