B-17 drone aircraft of the 509th Bombardment Group (bearing mushroom cloud Logo) is parked on pierced steel plank ramp, at Eniwetok (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), Marshall Islands, during Operation Crossroads atomic tests. Airmen remove air sampling instruments from the aircraft that was exposed to the cloud during the Able Atomic Test explosion. They place them on a truck for analysis. One airman carries a cage full of birds, from the aircraft.
Wounded U.S. Marines on the beach in Eniwetok Island (sometimes spelled Eniewetok or Enewetak). Blood plasma being administered to wounded soldiers in open field and camp. Dead U.S. Marines. View of Eniwetok Island after battle. Men sitting on the beach and swimming. Dead Japanese soldiers. Damaged Japanese equipment including tanks. Bomb craters on the air strip are filled. Native people of the island. U.S. Marine prepare to leave the island. A marine pats a dog. U.S. Marine leaving the Eniwetok Island. (World War II period).
Covers events relating to Operation Greenhouse. Atomic cloud generated by the atomic test conducted at the Enewetak Atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in the Marshall Islands. Atomic investigators perform analysis, tests and research of the radioactive samples collected from the atomic test site, in their laboratories.
Full-scale thermonuclear test of ultracold liquid deuterium, codenamed Ivy MIKE at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok). (Left to right) Chief engineering and firing commander, Stan Burris -- later the leader of the Strategic Ballistic Missile development, including Polaris and later editions; retired as CEO of Rockwell Aerospace -- military firing and security commander, Colonel Richard Lunger, and ultracold refrigeration engineering commander for thermonuclear liquid fuel state monitoring, Robert Gibney. The intense nuclear radiation ignited the atmosphere around the device, creating a fireball 4.2 miles across. A remote firing control was created, using a televison tower beam signal to safely trigger the detonation from the USS Estes, approximately 35 miles south/southeast of the detonation. White hot device remnant specks are visible throughout the surface of the fireball. Shockwave from Operation Ivy Mike explosion is seen spreading across the water, then a white mushroom cloud spreading above. View of crew on ship deck observing blast. Device yield: 10.4 megatons.
Airmen on the ground at Eniwitok Atoll (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok), Marshall Islands, unload radioactive cargo from a drone B-17 aircraft, of the 509th Bombardment Group, that had flown through the cloud following the atomic Test Able explosion at Bikini Atoll, during Operation Crossroads. (The drone displays an atomic cloud Logo on its fuselage.) The airmen use an ingenious arrangement of cables to remotely position a container under the drone's bomb bay. Then using remote controls, they release cargo from the bomb bay into the container. They reposition the cables (running near the aircraft, to minimize personal exposure) and repeat the process with another container. A C-54 carrying the 509th Bombardment Group's Mushroom Cloud Logo, stands ready to transport the cargo.
B-52, B-47 and B-66 RATO take off from a runway at the Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall Island. Pilot being assisted into an F-84F cockpit and seated in cockpit wearing a helmet. F-84F on ramp with pitot tube in nose section. F-84F taxiing out of parking area while a F-101 taxiing. F-101 takes off on a wet runway. Views of B-52, B-66, B-47, F-84F in flight. Scene of atomic bomb explosion burst over water at Eniwetok Atoll during nuclear testing by the United States. A F-101 in flight. A B-57 flies over on wing at high altitude.
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