Operation Sandstone
Operation Greenhouse
US Atomic Veterans
Carl P. Johnson
From: CPJADJ@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999
Subject: Operation Sandstone
To: pdxavets@aracnet.com
I am a Veteran of two nuclear tests one in 1948 and one in 1951 and in all the
information I have seen the Operation Sandstone has not been mentioned. I
have a book published by the Infantry Journal Press, 1115 17th Street NW,
Washington 6, D.C. , published in 1949. On page (96) is a picture taken with
the flash of an exploding atomic weapon. As you can see from this picture
most of the crew have on dark goggles on the rest of us turned our backs to
the blast and placed our arms over our eyes. Even with this heat was felt and
a red glow was seen.
I was also at Operation Greenhouse, in 1951. This time we were not aloud
topside but was at GQ, and the ship was washed down after each blast.
I am now 70 years old and do not have any adverse affects from this, but why
am I apparently healthy while others have been affected.
I was aboard the USS Curtiss (AV-4) for both Operation Sandstone and
Operation Greenhouse.
Carl P. Johnson
3045 Table Bluff Road
Loleta, Calif. 95551-9625
CPJADJ@aol.com
--Keith Whittle
December 8,1999
Operation Sandstone
Operation Greenhouse