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SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico). Th United States Navy fill put its atomic to their biggest test in manoeuvres in, re Caribbean. A two-enjned “enemy” Neptue-'4)omber will try to ting off a simulated comic air burst over erriers and four other warships gathered foi an “amphibious asault” on Vieques Isla.d, off the south-east coast of Puerto Rico. The Neptune has beei announced as the tyje of plane the Navy use to carry atom tombs. The Navy; current manoeuvres are the largest in its peacetime history. Naval officers claim that hey have planned an extended formation flat would hold losses rom atom bombing toarnaximum of one ship. * « *
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Northern Advocate, 28 February 1949, Page 4
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