January 14, 1946 - Begin the year with
more carrier OPS following the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116)
January 29, 1946 - Anti-submarine Warfare
Training with the USS Trepang (SS-412)
February 4, 1946 - More carrier OPS, this
time with USS Point Cruz (CVE-119)
February 25, 1946 - Yet another carrier to
play with - USS Rendova (CVE-114)
April 15, 1946 - General Quarters training
with the USS R. K. Huntington (DD-781)
April 17, 1946 - A dark brown haze coming
out of our stacks???
May 4, 1946 - Our buddies on the USS Moale
(DD-693) don't care for tonight's flick!
May 9, 1946 - It's another carrier! This
time she is the USS Shangri-La (CVA-38)
May 22, 1946 - With the Shangri-La headed
for Pearl Harbor
May 30, 1946 - After a brief stop in
Pearl, it's on to Bikini and Operation Crossroads
June 5, 1946 - Anchor at Bikini Atoll,
Marshall Islands
June 18, 1946 - Spend many days making
Oceanographic tests of the waters around the atoll
June 21, 1946 - A Chief Photographers Mate
reports aboard to film the upcoming tests
June 29, 1946 - Provide Taxi service for
the many observers
July 1, 1946 - The "Able" air
drop test explodes 19 miles from Sumner
July 25, 1946 - The "Baker"
underwater test and that afternoon Sumner is taking deep water samples
July 26, 1946 - Sumner finds a discolored
foamy patch of ocean and stops to investigate
July 27, 1946 - Sumner finds oil slick and
it tests 80 times radioactive tolerance levels
July 28, 1946 - F2c Ropka drops his rain
jacket overboard and jumps in after it, sent for radiological exam
July 30, 1946 - Sumner taxi service to
Kwajalein Atoll continues, today carrying General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, Major
General Anthony C. "Nuts" McAuliffe, Senator Carl A. Hatch, Senator
Leverett Saltonstall and Representative Chester E. Holifield.
August 10, 1946 - Sumner gets some action
and sinks the USS LCI 620 with her 5"/38 guns
August 15, 1946 - Operation Crossroads
complete Sumner arrives back at Pearl Harbor
August 17, 1946 - Squadron Seven sails on
for San Diego and home
August 22, 1946 - Back home with the USS
Barton (DD-722), USS Lowry (DD-770), USS O'Brien (DD-725), USS Laffey (DD-724), USS Walke
(DD-723), USS Ingraham (DD-694) and USS Moale (DD-693)
August 24, 1946 - After a deployment, the
inevitable personnel transfers come hot and heavy
