File:USS Atlanta (IX-304) with 500 ton-TNT charge in April 1965.jpg

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Description Operation Sailor Hat, 1965: The 500-ton TNT explosive charge for Shot Charlie, second of a series of three test explosions, ready for detonation on the southwestern tip of Kahoolawe Island, Hawaii, April 1965. USS Atlanta (IX-304) is moored in the background, with her bow facing left. A large SPS-37/SPS-43A type radar antenna is mounted on a pedestal on her foredeck, immediately in front of an ASROC launcher. An SPS-30 type radar antenna is on the pedestal at her extreme bow. Both of these antennas were relocated after the February 1965 Shot Bravo.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo USN 1110434 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy

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