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USS Saratoga (Atomic Bomb Test)

USS Saratoga (Atomic Bomb Test)

This Day in Jack Benny · John Henderson

August 31, 202233m 30s

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Show Notes

April 21, 1946 - Aboard the U.S.S. Saratoga Navy aircraft carrier docked in the San Francisco Bay, a week and a half before it left for Bikini where it would sink in an atom bomb test that summer.

References include Fred Allen, dehydrated powder eggs, and galley slaves.