File:USS New York (BB-34) is washed down at Bikini Atoll after Operation Crossroads, circa in July 1946.jpg

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English: A U.S. Navy fireboat washes down the battleship USS New York (BB-34) with seawater at Bikini Atoll, to reduce radioactive contamination after the base surge passed over it during the "Baker" nucelar test of Operation Crossroads on 25 July 1946.
Date circa July 1946
date QS:P,+1946-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy photo [1] in: Joint Task Force One, Operation Crossroads: the Official Pictorial Record, 1946, p 211; available at Navsource.org
Author U.S. Navy

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