Operation Dominic 1
1962


US Atomic Veterans

Ron Lockwood

From: "Ron Lockwood" lockcom1@worldspy.net
To: "Keith" pdxavets@aracnet.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Medical History (corrected e-mail address)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000

Hello Keith,

Thanks for the quick reply to my question about Rudy's e-mail address.

Yes I am an a-vet. I just found out about the group yesterday. I have always thought that the government should recognize the vets that served under the conditions we did.

I served aboard the USS Munsee ATF 107 during the Atomic tests at Christmas Island in 1962.

Our duties were to tow the target sleds to the detonation area, turn on the lights for the B-52's to see, then get out of the area as fast as we could, which only gave us about 2 hours before detonation. If the bomb didn't sink the target we had to go back in and finish the job, which we had to do on several occasions.

I believe we were there for 16 bomb drops.

Talk to you again sometime,

Ron Lockwood
Email lockcom1@worldspy.net

Keith Whittle
April 29, 2000


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