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Atomic Veterans Memorial

 
 
Atomic Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, December 24, 2018
1. Atomic Veterans Memorial
Inscription. Dedicated to our atomic veterans who participated in atmospheric or underwater nuclear tests as part of the United States nuclear weapons testing program or in the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, 1945.
 
Erected 1990 by National Association Of Atomic Veterans.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.
 
Location. 30° 24.733′ N, 88° 56.617′ W. Memorial is in Biloxi, Mississippi, in Harrison County. It is on Veterans Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Biloxi MS 39531, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, and on the Gulf Coast. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within
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3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Navy Seabees Memorial (here, next to this marker); Veterans Memorial (approx. ¼ mile away); Beauvoir (approx. 2 miles away); a different marker also named Beauvoir (approx. 2.1 miles away); Labuzon-Stirling House (approx. 2.3 miles away); White House Hotel (approx. 2.3 miles away); Father Ryan House (approx. 2.4 miles away); Biloxi Cemetery (approx. 2.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Biloxi.
 
Atomic Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Craig Doda, December 24, 2018
2. Atomic Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 6, 2020. It was originally submitted on November 25, 2020, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 434 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on November 25, 2020, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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