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"A" Day And "ATI" Day, Bikini Atoll, Operation Crossroads, 07/01/1946 - 07/02/1946
About this film
Naval Photographic Center film # 18514. National Archives description: "1) CU Goat in stand, aboard USS FRANKLIN (APA-64) (SV).2) CU Samples of Navy cloth mounted on port side of FRANKLIN.3) CU Goat.4) CU Man carrying animal down dock.5) CU Rats, whose fur has turned yellow.6) CU Goat.7) CU CAPT DRANDER and CAPT F.R. LANCE talking with men.8) CU Rat cage.9) MS-CU Loading cages into small boat.10) CU-MS Activities on dock, showing various affects the "A" bomb had on the animals.11) CU Various goats.12) CU Dead goat in stand.13) CU Goat being placed in bag.14) CU Goat in bag being lowered to small boat.15) CU Man taking live goat out of bag.16) CU Boat being lowered over the side of USS BURLESON (APA-67) on "A" day to retrieve animals. (SV)17) LS Small boat in water underway.18) HA LS Animal cages in small boat alongside ship.19) (SV) Various boats coming alongside and shoving off from large boats.20) LS LST-661 smoking from after effects (SV).21) MS Stern fire starting to break out on LST-220.22) LS Fire breaking out amidship on LST-661.23) CU-MS Anchor ball going up on BURLESON.24) MS Union Jack tube locked at the staff.25) CU Anchor chain going out." National Archives Identifier:…
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
Nuclear Test, Atomic Bomb, United States. Navy, USS Franklin (APA-64), United States. Army, USS Franklin, United States. Army Air Forces, Project Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, Cold War, USS Burleson (APA-67), Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946, USS Burleson, Animal Testing, USS LST-661, Atomic bomb -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, World War II: Postwar Issues, Nuclear Weapons
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