Boats - Sailing - Ships
Mar. 27 Fishing Boat Polluted By Bikini Bomb Fall-Out A Memorial. The Japanese fishing boat No5 Fukurya Maru (Lucky Dragon) which was exposed to fallout from a Hydrogen bomb test conducted by the United States on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific 22 years ago, is now on display in an exhibition hall built to house it by the Metropolitan Government in Yumenoshima Park in the Koro Ward of Tokya, after the boat had laiderelict for many years. At the same time a memorial stone to the late Aikichi Kuboyama, the boat's radio operator who died at the age of 40 from the affects of the bomb's ashes which covered the boat was unveiled near the hall containing the boat. 1) The Lucky Dragon in the exhibition hall
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