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B-29 "Dave's Dream" making a test run over Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads

Aerial view of Bikini Atoll and surroundings during Operations Crossroads, the first postwar atomic bomb tests. Test ships are seen positioned in bay. The B-29, "Dave's Dream", which would drop the first atomic device, in Test Able, is seen in flight on a trial run. The aircraft carries tail code B, and the numbers 7354. During this trial, the B-29 opens its bomb bay doors, and after a while recloses them and makes a sharp turn away to the right.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll
Date: 1946, June
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
 
Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Crew members in cockpit of B-29, "Dave's Dream," reconnoiter Bikini Atoll

Pilot, Major Woodrow Swancutt, Copilot Captain William C. Harrison, and Bombardier Major Harokd H. Wood, in their respective crew positions in cockpit of the B-29 Superfortress, "Dave's Dream." They fly low over the area of the Bikini Atoll, in preparation for conducting Test Able in the atomic testing sequence. Aerial view of the island.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll
Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
 
Aerial view of atomic bomb burst from Test Baker, Operations Crossroads

Cluster of test vessels is seen in aerial view of test site, Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean. Baker test, of underwater atomic burst, in Operation Crossroads, July, 1946. Detonation produces large shock wave, water column and mushroom cloud.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
 
Operation Crossroads, Atomic Test Able, explosion at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands

Aerial view of Operations Crossroads atomic Test Able explosion at Bikini Atoll. Intense flash is followed bu typical mushroom cloud rising from detonation point.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
 
Operation Crossroads. Test Able atomic detonation. Target fleet visible. Mushroom cloud

View from the air of atomic Test Able explosion during Operation Crossroads atomic tests. The target fleet of ships in Bikini Lagoon is clearly visible. The mushroom cloud rises rapidly.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
 
Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Mushroom cloud from atomic Test Able

Aerial view of mushroom cloud rising from detonation of atomic bomb in Test Able of the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The mushroom cloud rises straight up from the Bikini Lagoon. Bikini Atoll visible in background.

  • Location: Bikini Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
 
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