Comments | jasonbd: The decrapification continues!

jasonbd

The decrapification continues!

Feb 25, 2007 10:22

In furthering the expulsion of junk from the premises, I started to dig through a shelf of chemistry and physics books that I received after my step grandfather died. As an aside, the man was very intelligent and introduced me to the reception of Russian weather satellite signals that he recorded on a VCR and then played back into his 486 dx2 66 ( Read more... )

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i_am_electro February 25 2007, 22:28:11 UTC

That is fascinating. Do you have the UHF stuff and the 486?

(I take it he didn't have a still though?)

Corvus AKA 26 dw1945 June 25 2007, 13:42:23 UTC

My dad (deceased) was an officer on the Attack Cargo ship Corvus (AKA 26) when it took "army personnel" from Seattle to Tinian (June-July 1945). He had told the story that the army personnel were army civilians and that one of them mentioned there was a device that could destroy an entire city when they were disembarking at Tinian. He said that none of the Corvus's officers believed that remark--thought the remark was some kind of joke and only knew different when they heard the news ~1 month later of the dropping of the atomic bomb. I would really like to obtain a "xerox" copy of the pertinent pages from the Oppenheimer biography that you mentioned you found as I am doing some research on my dad's experiences in the Navy in WWII. If you are willing, I can provide via e-mail the address you can send it to and reimburse you for the cost incurred.

Re: Corvus AKA 26 jasonbd June 29 2007, 14:19:55 UTC

I would gladly scan and share . . . no costs incurred.

Re: Corvus AKA 26 dw1945 June 29 2007, 22:53:24 UTC

Thank you for the prompt reply. It's most generous of you to be willing to scan the relevant pages and send them to me. My e-mail address is dermotandmaria@verizon.net

Thanks again!

P.S. I find the matter most interesting as you do. I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to speak with a former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who as a young man was on Tinian with the Manhattan Project. He was unable to shed any light vis-a-vis the Corvus and seemed certain the actual bomb material and components had come via the cruiser Indianapolis and via air on B-29 bombers which also were used to ferry-in Manhattan project scientists to Tinian. So, maybe we have stumbled on to some additional mystery! I live in the Washington DC region so I plan to go to Bethesda, MD where there are ships logs archived and read through the Corvus's daily logs for the appropriate period. If you like I would be happy to share what info I find with you.