Now showing
B-29 Bomber, Sound, Operations Crossroads, Atom Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll, 1946
About this film
Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it Clapperboard "A" Day X Roads 1-July-46 "return of 'A' Bomb Carrier 354. B-29 bomber lands. Crew shakes hands. Are interviewed. Shots of ad-hoc "bar" with sign "no wine no women no nothing" and "STUDS SALOON" shirtless personnel drink cokes and smoke cigarettes. Landscape shots with tower. Bombers take off into sunset. Internal shot of personnel speaking into microphone. Bombers taxiing and take off. Personnel on flight line. Man speaks on handy-talkie. Bombers taxiing. Personnel on flight line. Bomber crew near aircraft. Bomber takes off. Aerial shots of B-29 bombers and short clip of crew inside aircraft. B-29 in air. Mushroom cloud below. National Archives Identifier: 20945 no description
Directors & creators
United States. Army
Subjects
Cold War, A-bomb, Nuclear Test, Mushroom Cloud, Project Crossroads, Atomic bomb -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946, Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Nuclear Weapons, Airplanes, Military, Clouds -- Dynamics, Water vapor, Atmospheric, B-29 Bomber, United States. Army Air Forces
More from this pool