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January 2003 -- December 2003
December 31, 2003--Joe Morrison was NCOIC Detachment #3, 9423 TU, Army Comm and Admin Network at Operation Redwing.
December 31, 2003--Lt. G.L. Shafer was the Gun Platoon Commander, 1st Platoon, A Battery, 867th Field Artillery Battalion, (Atomic Annie) at Upshot Knothole.
December 31, 2003--Tom Simms was an Aviation Mechanic aboard the USS Badoeing Strait at Operation Redwing.
December 20, 2003--Nick Lauletta was in the Boat Pool attached to the USS Oak Hill at Operation Ivy.
December 7, 2003--Keith Cunday was a Marine aboard the USS Curtiss AV4 at Operation Greenhouse.
Richard Batchlor C Company, 188th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division at Operation Buster Jangle has passed away.
Marty Jacek, Company C, 188th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division, at Operation Buster Jangle has passed away.
November 13, 2003--John Broussard was with the 2nd Marine Corps, Provisional Atomic Exercise Brigade, at Upshot/Knothole.
November 11, 2003--Veterans Day--
Armistice Day 2003 A Remembrance by Steve Osborn
November 1, 2003-- Robert G. (Bob) Jenkins served as Commissary man aboard the USS Renshaw at Operation Castle.
October 28, 2003--Isaac Riches with the 140th Motor Vehicle Sqd., Clovis AFB, at Shot Charlie, Tumbler Snapper has passed away.
October 28, 2003--Charles Morgan served with Headquarters Detachment at Operation Redwing.
October 26, 2003--Zeke Beranek served as a Radio Operator on the U.S.E. Elkhorn at Operation Ivy.
October 22, 2003--Nuell W. (Bill) Paschal was Quartermaster on the USS Fall River at Operation Crossroads.
October 22, 2003-- Del Littrell served aboard the USS Renshaw DDE 499 at Operation Castle.
October 12, 2003--Walter Deptula was attached to Pacific Missile Range-Hawaii as a Naval Aviator at Operation Dominic.
October 12, 2003--Dan Mathis a radarman on the USS Loyalty MSO 457 at Operation Dominic has passed away at age 60, from cancer.
September 29, 2003--Walt Banning was with the Rad Lab on the YAG 39 at Castle and Wigwam.
September 24, 2003--Bill Kishbaugh served as on the USS Renville at Operation Hardtack.
September 24, 2003--Clark Caldwell served with the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Tumbler Snapper.
September 20, 2003--Billy Wayne Hammonds served aboard the USS Navasota. at Redwing.
September 9, 2003-Edward Teller nuclear weaponeer and promoter of the Hydrogen Bomb, Nuclear Excavation, and Star Wars, is dead at age 95.
September 2, 2003-- Duane "Whitey" Coker served on the USS Lamson and Clamp during Operation Crossroads has passed away.
August 24, 2003--Guy Alewine worked in the Supply Squadron of the 4951st at Operation Hardtack.
August 16, 2003-- Ray Durden an A-E-3, an Airedale on the USS Bairoko CVE115 during Operation Castle has passed away.
August 10, 2003--Kenneth R. Bass served on the USS Shea DM-30 at Operation Castle.
August 9, 2003--58 Years Ago Today In Atomic History
Nagasaki Destroyed by Atom Bomb.August 6, 2003--58 Years Ago Today In Atomic History
Hiroshima Destroyed by Atom Bomb.
July 28, 2003--Gary Gray served on the USS Badoeng Strait CVE116, at Operation Redwing.
July 24, 2003--Ben Rush was attached to the 84th Engineer Battalion for the Clean-Up at Eniwetok.
July 13, 2003--Cecil Coale worked with the DASA Scientific Organization at Operation Dominic.
June 6, 2003--George Mace worked in the CTG 7.3 Communication Center on Operation Hardtack.
June 4, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The last detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
May 25, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The tenth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
May 19, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The ninth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
May 8, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The eighth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
April 25, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The seventh detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
April 18, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The sixth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
April 11, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The fifth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
April 6, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The fourth detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
March 31, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The third detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
March 24, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The second detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole is fired.
March 17, 2003--50 Years Ago Today In Atomic History: The first detonation of Operation Upshot Knothole.
February, 2002--Eugene F. Modert an Air Force Crew Chief for the Samplers at Operations Castle and Teapot has passed away.
January 25, 2003--Dave Packer was the Wireless Operator for1 RDU Royal Canadian Engineers.
January 25, 2003-- Lloyd Morris served as an an FN on the USS Reclaimer at Operation Dominic.
January 25, 2003--Raymond Barringer was aboard the USS Navasota.at Operation Redwing
January 25, 2003--S. Don Jorgensen was with the CG Loran Station. at Operation Redwing
January 25, 2003--Cliff Hemphill was assigned to V-1 Division USS Princeton at Operation Dominic.
January 15, 2003--James Tracy was First Sergeant, D Company, 701st AIB, 1st Armored Division at Upshot/Knothole.
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