1966 - Color, Spain: Operation Salvage Operation Search w/ Alvin. 09Mar66 (?) (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
10:35:53 Recovery vessels at sea. Toward camera w/ coast behind.
10:37:45 Reporters, civilians & military VIPs in LCM. Deptuy-Commander of Strike Force South RADM W.S. Guest (long brown leather coat) talking w/ reporters. Approaching USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) w/ Alvin hanging from crane. Reporters & photographers taking pictures.
10:39:55 Alvin seen leaving Fort Snelling, in water w/ rubber motorboat nearby.
Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath;1960s; Radiation Hazard;
NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.
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1966 - Color, Spain: Operation Salvage Operation Search w/ Alvin. 09Mar66 (?) (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain 10:35:53 Recovery vessels at sea. Toward camera w/ coast behind. 10:37:45 Reporters, civilians & military VIPs in LCM. Deptuy-Commander of Strike Force South RADM W.S. Guest (long brown leather coat) talking w/ reporters. Approaching USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) w/ Alvin hanging from crane. Reporters & photographers taking pictures. 10:39:55 Alvin seen leaving Fort Snelling, in water w/ rubber motorboat nearby. Communications; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; Near Miss; Aftermath;1960s; Radiation Hazard; NOTE: On 17Jan66 a SAC B-52 carrying four B28 thermonuclear (hydrogen) bombs collided in mid-air w/ KC-135 tanker while refueling. 3 bombs were found on shore, high explosives in two had detonated on impact scattering plutonium dust over several hundred acres. After 80 days the fourth bomb was found.