Operation Desert Rock at Yucca Flats in Las Vegas, Nevada. U.S. Marines in dungarees with field transport packs, rifles and other combat gear as they enter a tent. The marines in winter service " B" uniforms with packs, rifles and other equipment as they move through streets and are assigned tents. The marines walk after getting off buses. They carry rifles, BAR's ( Browning Automated Rifles) and carbines. Aeriel view of the camp area. M35 trucks with the marines in back as they pull water trailers. A sign reads ' Camp Desert Rock Sixth Army '. Men peel potato. The marines shave and wash their faces at an outdoor wash rack. An officer at a chart as he briefs the marines. Two marines at a table inside a tent. A marine comes out of the tent.
Life in Las Vegas, Nevada. A man and a woman walk down a street. People walk past stores, clubs, and casinos such as the Savoy during the day time. A parade comes down a street with the band members in highland outfits. Drum majorettes strut ahead. Scene changes to an intersection with traffic and cars passing by. Signs visible for Overland Hotel, Hotel Sal Sagey, Las Vegas Club, Monte Carlo. U.S. Marines in "B" uniform walking in front of the Swinging Door Saloon, and a man leads two white mules down the sidewalk behind them.
Life in Las Vegas, Nevada. Several neon signs outside gambling houses glow in the dark at night during the early 1950s. A sign reads "Pioneer Club." Above it is neon art of a cowboy with a moving arm that waves up and down. Another sign at a casino reads "Golden Nugget gambling hall." A sign reads "Gambling." Another sign reads "Hotel Last Frontier" and others include "Thunderbird Hotel" and "Hotel Apache."
A gambling house in Las Vegas, Nevada. Men and women at a roulette table as they bet. They place chips on numbers at the table. The chips scattered over the roulette table.
A mule pulled wagon ouside Las Vegas, Nevada, with writing on the side "See America Fast." An old man rides his mule pulled wagon. A sign on the wagon reads ' Here comes jack'. The old man with a number of animals like a dog, a goat and a hen. He looks towards the sky before the test of a nuclear bomb weapon. He walks to the back of the wagon.
Nuclear weapon testing near Las Vegas, Nevada. Vehicles on the move. Mountains in the background. Soldiers seated as they have their meal. News organizations compete for favorable places on hillside.One sign reads:"Universal staked his claim here April 20 52. Recorded 3-22-52." Cameramen atop a hill as they prepare to record the atomic bomb testing. Photographers take pictures. A cameraman wears protective glasses. A nuclear weapon being tested and an explosion occurs as nuclear bomb detonates. Billows of smoke rise up. A cameraman looks at the explosion. He wears protective eyewear.
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