Information: - USNS Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup ( T - AG - 175 ) was a C1 - M - AV1 coastal freighter . Built as Spindle Eye , one of the many named for knots . The ship , modified to be a '' news transmission ship '' for the press during the planned invasion of Japan , was completed 9 July 1945 , delivered to the War Shipping Administration and placed under its agent Lykes Brothers Steamship Company the same day . Days later , on 26 July , Spindle Eye was bareboat chartered to the War Department for operation by the Army . The ship was renamed November 1947 by the Army , after serving as a radio relay ship at the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests and conversion to an Army passenger - cargo vessel , Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup in honor Sergeant Curtis F. Shoup who had been awarded the Medal of Honor . After layup the U.S. Navy acquired the ship and placed her in service with the Military Sea Transportation Service ( MSTS ) as the USNS Sgt. Curtis F. Shoup . The ship was converted by the Navy into a helicopter freighter and later into a ship responsible for surveying , and oceanographic services . She was struck in 1970 and sold for scrapping . - Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (January 8, 1879 November 27, 1971) was an officer in the United States Navy, noted for his contributions to naval architecture, particularly in submarine design. Notable assignments included serving as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair during the 1930s, and as Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II. - Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships. - The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the US needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely coordinated though Vice Admiral Emory S. Land who continued as head of the Maritime Commission while also heading the WSA. - Bikini Atoll (pronounced or ; Marshallese: , , meaning "coconut place") is an atoll in the Marshall Islands which consists of 23 islands totaling surrounding a deep central lagoon. It is at the northern end of the Ralik Chain, approximately northwest of Ailinginae Atoll and northwest of Majuro. Within Bikini Atoll, Bikini, Eneu, Nam, and Enidrik islands comprise just over 70% of the land area. Bikini and Eneu are the only islands of the atoll that hosted a permanent population. Bikini Island is the northeastern most and largest islet. Before World War II, the atoll was known by its Baltic German name as Eschscholtz Atoll. - World WarII (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World WarII the deadliest conflict in human history. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'usns sgt. curtis f. shoup ' with the relationship of 'operator'. Choices: - united states navy - world war ii
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united states navy