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Sign left behind from Operations Crossroads, Bikini Island, summer 1949

Description:
Images documenting the 1949 Bikini Resurvey Project. Caption in scrapbook: Others had been there This crude sign hangs in a dilapidated and rotting frame building which was used as a Seabee shop during Operation Crossroads. It seemed to express with defiant bluntness the atmosphere of deserted Bikini Island -- an atmosphere compounded of heat an... Marshall Islands - Bikini Atoll - Bikini Island
Display date:
1949
Location:
Marshall Islands
Format:
image
Collections:
Digital Public Library of America
Contributors:
University of Washington
Content partner:
University of Washington
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