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Operation Crossroads Preparations For Baker Day: Bikini Lagoon, 07/21/1946 - 07/25/1946
About this film
Naval Photographic Center film #18535. National Archives description: "1) MCU Several men in small motor boat, as it approaches LSM-60. 2) LA MS Adm's flag pulled down and yoke flag hauled up. 3) MS Submarine SKIPJACK being submerged (SV). 4) HA MS Submarine SKIPJACK going down, ADM FAHRION and CAPT SHARPE watching from undit. ship. 5) CU ADM FAHRION. 6) CU Map of Bikini Atoll. 7) HA MCU Several officers looking at map of Bikini Atoll. 8) CU GEN NICHOLS. 9) CU CAPT SHARPE. 10) MCU KING JUDA leaves PBY and gets into motor launch with ADM PUSSEY. 11) MS KING JUDA leaves the USS ORCA (AVP-49), getting into motor launch. 12) MCU Bomb raft. 13) MCU Men leaving LSM-60, the bomb raft. 14) CU ADM PARSONS, prior to leaving the bomb raft." National Archives Identifier: 81085 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks.
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
Nuclear Test, Atomic Bomb, United States. Navy, Project Crossroads, United States. Army, Bikini Atoll, United States. Army Air Forces, Cold War, Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946, Atomic bomb -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Bikini Atoll -- Testing, World War II: Postwar Issues, Catalina (Seaplane), Fahrion, Frank G., USS LSM-60, King Juda, USS Skipjack (SS-184), Parsons, William Sterling, 1901-1953, USS Skipjack, Nuclear Weapons, USS Orca (AVP-49), Nichols, Kenneth D. -- (Kenneth David), 1907-, USS Orca
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