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During a battle the left side of the mess hall was used for surgeries. Coming down the ladder you could see doctors working on the injured soldiers. You could see the doctors cutting off limbs and see the limbs laying along with the blood flowing back and forth on the deck. On the other side of the mess hall we went over and ate while this was going on. We could see the surgeries as we ate. Lots of guys couldn't handle it and threw up.

Probably experiencing the customs from the different islands...and getting drunk...

Three. Able, Baker, Charlie. Underwater, surface, and air.

It was awesome and destructive. We were 12 miles outside of the atoll and felt the impact. We had to wear dark sunglasses. On the return to San Francisco, they wouldn't let us on land until they had completed radiation testing.

(Grandson: He says three but it may have been two since it appears the third test was cancelled. He participated in the tests in the 40s.)

When the bomb exploded, it appeared that all of the water inside the atoll formed a mushroom and its height must have been 2 to 3 miles high. There were many ships but I remember the biggest ship, the battleship, split in two. After the water settled, all the ships vanished. Nothing left at all.

(Grandson: He smiled and said "I don't remember saying that .")