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Show Arkansas May Be Second Target Shin Target ship, or vessel nearest center cen-ter of the blast, for the second atomic bomb test may be the overage over-age battleship Arkansas, it has been indicated by reliable sources although al-though no definite announcement has been made by Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, commander of operations crossroads and the joint task force. The carrier Saratoga was first slated to be second target ship. An interesting sidelight on fate of the Saratoga, which suffered only I negligible damage in the first test, is that her commander, Capt. Donald Don-ald MacMahon. knowing that she was slated for the second target ship made a wager with a friend in Washington, before bringing the ship to Bikini, that he would take her back to the East coast under her own power. It looks now that i he has better than a 5a50 chance of winning his bet. |