1966 - Color, Spain: Aircraft Salvage Operation, Camp Wilson. 24Feb68 (Atomic Search)
Palomares, Spain
09:16:03 Underwater view of lines, diver pulled along past camera. View of Aluminaut in distance(?).
09:16:26 Slate 24Feb66 Sign; Camp Wilson Exchange. Navy officer into tent & out. View of Spanish building w/ cement blocks, wheelbarrows. Tents seen beyond old wall entrance. Views of tent city w/ ships at sea beyond. Airman into Communications Center tent. View of Command Post & sign. Transportation tent & sign.
09:18:56 Main dirt road that has been recently watered to hold down dust. Sign: “Operation No Dust” Sign: Detection Decontamination.
Communications; Support Activity; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; 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: Aircraft Salvage Operation, Camp Wilson. 24Feb68 (Atomic Search) Palomares, Spain 09:16:03 Underwater view of lines, diver pulled along past camera. View of Aluminaut in distance(?). 09:16:26 Slate 24Feb66 Sign; Camp Wilson Exchange. Navy officer into tent & out. View of Spanish building w/ cement blocks, wheelbarrows. Tents seen beyond old wall entrance. Views of tent city w/ ships at sea beyond. Airman into Communications Center tent. View of Command Post & sign. Transportation tent & sign. 09:18:56 Main dirt road that has been recently watered to hold down dust. Sign: “Operation No Dust” Sign: Detection Decontamination. Communications; Support Activity; US Navy; Naval Ships; International Incident; Searching; 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.