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Operation Crossroads Reel 1

Reel Number: 220900-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1946

Country: Marshall Islands,Pacific

Location: Bikini Islands

TC Begins: 22:21:57

TC Ends: 22:32:34

Duration: 00:10:37

Operation Crossroads (nuclear and atomic) Reel 1 Film coverage of Project Crossroads, a project of the two atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in l946 and including Able Day test of an atomic bomb drop from a B-29 on 1 July 1946, and Baker Day test, the underwater detonation of an atomic bomb on 25 July 1946. Included are B-29 operators, damage to the target fleet, and personalities including Maj Gen Curtis LeMay, Gen Joseph W. Stilwell, Vice Adm S.H.P. Blandy. Aerial shots of Bikini Island. Air to air B-29 No. 354 (Atom bomb drop aircraft) in flight to the left while opening and closing the bomb bay doors. B-29 No. 7354 (Daw’s Dream) in take off to the left. Crew putting on their Mae West vests and parachutes and boarding the aircraft. Placing and removing a shroud around the bomb bay door of the B-29 Starting engines and closing bomb bay doors of B-29 No. 354.

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