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Nuclear Test Medals awarded: “When the plane dropped the bomb you could see all the bones in your fingers”

Gerry Robert and Henry Torode were involved in the British Pacific Nuclear Test Programme, officially known as Operation Grapple. Mr Robert was 21 and serving as a Corporal in the Royal Army Service Corps when he witnessed the detonation of four nuclear bombs at Christmas Island in the Pacific, in 1957. He had a clear […]

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