Naval Cover - U S S Arkansas Training - Sunk at Bikini Atoll S388

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STAMPS FROM BROOKMAN STAMPS & M JAFFE DUCKS - Check out our other items ! !TOPIC - This is a very interesting cover announcing the U S S Arkansas 1935 Training Cruise at Culebra Island, West Indies. The cover is posted on the Arkansas with a special cancel. The USS Arkansas was later sunk during the atomic bomb testing at the Bikini Atoll. The condition is very good with some wear and soiling.During the first months of 1946, Arkansas lay at San Francisco, California. In late April, the ship got underway for Hawaii. She reached Pearl Harbor on 8 May, and stood out of Pearl Harbor on 20 May, bound for Bikini Atoll, earmarked for use as target for atomic bomb testing in Operation Crossroad. On 1 July, the Arkansas was exposed to an air burst in ABLE, but survived with extensive shock damage to her upperworks, while her hull and armored turrets were little damaged. On 25 July, the battleship was sunk by the underwater nuclear test BAKER at Bikini Atoll. Unattentuated by air, the shock was "transmitted directly to underwater hulls", and Arkansas , only 250 yards from the epicenter, appeared to have been "crushed as if by a tremendous hammer blow from below". It appears that the wave of water from the blast capsized the ship, which was then hammered down into the shallow bottom by the descent of the water column thrown up by the blast. read more

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