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AN ARMY TANK JOINS THE NAVY. At the 

 U. S. Naval Shipyard at Bremerton, Washington, 

 a new light 26-ton tank armed with the Air Corps 

 75 mm cannon is hoisted aboard the "Pennsylvania" 

 for the trip to Bikini. Explicit in the directive of 

 the Joint Chiefs of Staff creating Operation Cross- 

 roads was the requirement that, consistent with 



the primary object of determining the effects of 

 atomic bombs on vessels, all possible information 

 should be obtained concerning the effects of the 

 bombs on military equipment. A wide variety of 

 Army materiel, including signal, engineer, chemical 

 warfare, ordnance, and quartermaster, equipment 

 was exposed. 



