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REBOARDING PARTY. Newspapermen inspect 

 damage to one of the target ships following Test 

 Able. In the foreground are the charred remains 

 of Army Ground Forces equipment exposed to the 

 bomb. The Evaluation Board's initial report stated 

 that primary material effects of the bomb were 

 due to blast, with fire a secondary cause of 



damage. Army Quartermaster stores and miscel- 

 laneous equipment placed on the decks of the tar- 

 get ships provea more vulneraoie than normal naval 

 deck gear. There was no evidence on any of the 

 ships remaining afloat that any of the considerable 

 amounts of explosive ordnance exposed on deck 

 was exploded by direct action of the atomic bomb. 



