June 30th, 1946
Able Atomic Test, Bikini Atoll.
The military authorities and scientist had promised the Bikini Atoll native residents that they would be able to return home after the atomic tests. A majority of the islands family heads agreed to leave the island but not all of them.
The outcast clan of the Fearless Chicken remained up to the last day. Their leader had been in negotiation with the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission for greater compensation.
He returned having achieved his additional roosting rights as well as will a commemorative wrist watch presented to him my President Harry Truman.
He arrived home 3 days before the blast. Unfortunately, he failed to change the time from Washing D.C. time zone as well as consideration of the International Date Line. Consequently, his remains were consumed by crabs and seagulls They feasted on some very BBQ’d chicken all that afternoon.
My Sanyo watch would never take this abuse.