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Devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan in World War II

U.S. War Department film showing devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 2. Opening scene is darkness of predawn in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16, July, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM. Suddenly, a huge explosion lights up the sky. A fireball and mushroom shaped cloud form. Closer view of the explosion from another camera. Following the initial explosion, the ensuing sound is a continuous roar. Another view is shown, from a third camera location. It highlights the boiling fire and smoke of the explosion. These scenes document the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, code named "Trinity". Change of scene shows glimpse of the Manhattan Project B Reactor site at Hanford, Washington, as viewed from a car driving past. Closeup of the facility, from right up against a boundary fence. Glimpses of other Manhattan Project facilities in New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and another view of the Hanford, Washington facility. Next, a rough topographical map of Japan is shown. Closeup of elevated railroad train traveling in Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial Japanese Army motorized vehicles are shown on parade, including fully tracked open personnel carriers with soldiers aboard and Type 94 Tankettes being driven by individual soldiers. Japanese infantry marching in full field gear including shouldered rifles with fixed bayonets. Closeup of a Japanese Army officer. Glimpse of Japanese support troops, such as quartermaster elements, in black uniforms. Japanese technicians in white lab coats at a wartime facility. Japanese Navy Warships being launched from Hiroshima ship yards. A lone B-29 bomber seen in flight over clouds. Its tail number, 42-63735 is clearly seen. It displays a large "05" on it upper tail. (This is not the "Enola Gay" whose tail number was 44-86292.) Closeup of one of the aircraft's engines with propeller turning. Glimpse upward from interior of the aircraft. Scene shifts to aerial photograph of Hiroshima with overlay depicting the bomb strike zone. Animated map showing explosion and precise point ot detonation above the junction of the Motoyasu and Ota Rivers. A view at the ground of destruction from the atomic explosion. An American soldier stands in the midst of the destruction. Slabs of heavy concrete are destroyed. View looking East from ground zero, past a burned tree trunk in the foreground, where the shells of several stronger buildings still stand amidst a sea of rubble. To the South, hardly anything is left standing. Looking West, everything is essentially leveled.

Date: 1946
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027674
Ruins and devastation caused by the atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan.

Ruins and devastation caused by the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. Members of a United States mission inspect the ruins. Effect of the ruins on the Russo-Japanese War Memorial. Trees in the field destroyed due to the explosion. Rubble and ruins in the city. Wrecked houses and buildings. A destroyed statue amidst the city. Damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall with Motoyasu Bridge in the background. People walk on a street.

Date: 1946
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027675
Views of damage in Hiroshima, Japan caused by Atomic Bomb explosion in World War 2

Elevated view of people walking on the damaged Ai-Oi Bridge over a river in Hiroshima, Japan. Bridge shows damage from the atomic bomb explosion in World War 2. A U.S. soldier examines a steel bridge post etched from flying debris during the blast. Views of various wrecked buildings in the city. Exterior and interior views of a destroyed school building. A building knocked partially off its foundation and leaning sideways. Ruins of destroyed Japanese military headquarters. View of he Chugoku Electric Company building made of reinforced concrete that withstood the blast better than many buildings.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027676
Role of U.S. Naval gunfire during battle for Okinawa, Japan, during World War II.

U.S. Battleships cruising in the Pacific. Close views of naval 16 inch gun barrels Navy personnel manning radio and teletype stations in a communications center. (They are shirtless, presumably due to heat.) They receive a message from General Bruckner, Commanding General, 10th Army, to Admiral Turner, Commander, Task Force 51,praising the active naval support for U.S. ground forces. Scenes of naval gunfire of all types. Japanese aircraft hit and burning. A U.S. naval 16 inch gun fires and produces a giant smoke ring.

Date: 1946, April
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027754
United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes' in United States.

United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes'. Animated film describes disorientation and how instruments solve the problem when flying.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027964
A Japanese mother and child with the burns on their bodies due to atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima carried out in World War II.

Medical treatment for victims of atomic bomb attacks in Hiroshima during World War II. A Japanese mother Hideko and her child Tako Irie strapped at her back, the same position when they faced the attack. The mother's face and entire body is burned while only the child's legs, which are protruding, are burned. The mother's body protected the rest of the child, including it's face and body. Mother undressed with child on her back. Straps being removed from her breasts to and the unburned areas where the straps were at the time of the blast. Mother turns body to show child's structure and burns on legs. Face of child without any burns, contrasts with bad burn scars on mother's face.

Date: 1946, March 23
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060683