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United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) damaged in Operation Crossroad "Test Able," risk in daily lives and discussion of radioactivity.

'Radioactive contamination' about the hazards posed by the sinking of a United States aircraft carrier and the methods to control radioactivity. United States Navy F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft taking off from United States aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. F6F-3 Hellcat firing rockets in air. Landing signal operator LSO using flags while guiding plane for landing on USS Independence. Kamikaze attacks at Tarawa. Anti aircraft guns on carrier cut down kamikaze planes as they attack. USS Independence flying USA flag at Tokyo Bay. Scene of surrender of Japanese at Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. Aerial view of atomic bomb blast at Bikini in 1946. The wrecked carrier Independence being towed away after it was used as a target for an atomic bomb test in 1946 as part of Operation Crossroads. Men at a construction site talk about contamination caused in sea water due to sinking of Independence containing radioactive waste. They comment, "she's all full of that radioactive poison" and with respect to eating fish in water near the ship, "would you eat fish again?" Two women dressed in furs, in a car, also discuss radioactivity. One woman says, "from what I've heard it's very dangerous. " View of 1940s car backing into oncoming traffic and almost causing an accident. An aerial view of atomic explosion at Bikini. Damaged USS Independence ship after TEST ABLE. Signs on board warn of radioactivity with words, "Keep Clear, Danger! Very Radio-Active" and "Radioactivity. Do not remain more than 2 hours." Men in small boat near USS Independence examine damage to the ship. Parts of the USS Independence being tested for radioactive contamination at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory NRDL, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California. The USS Independence being sunk in 1951. View of Bikini atomic bomb blast within a bay surrounded by ships. Simulation shows the effect a similar blast would have on a coastal city as a radioactive cloud covers the city. Officers holding handkerchiefs to their mouths as they enter an office building from outside. Firemen climb ladders while putting out a large fire. A house wife working in a kitchen and responding to a pot boiling over on the stove burns her hand. A man slips on a bar of soap in the shower while singing. An officer honking at an oncoming car as he is run off the road. Woman driver dressed in furs exclaims to her friend about the bad driving of men. Officer just run off the road by woman driver exclaims, "Women !" with frustration. Aerial view of test nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1951
Duration: 8 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051356
United States Marines aboard United states ship Cowpen as they prepare to land on Japan during World War II.

United States Marines being transferred to United States LSV-2 in the Pacific Ocean for landings on Japan during World War II. The marines with landing party gear on the flight deck of United States ship Cowpen underway in the Pacific Ocean. A marine puts apples in a knapsack. The marines load .45 pistol clips. A marine with a monkey mascot on his arm as others look on. A monkey on a mortar. The marines at quarters for muster on the flight deck. They put on their battle equipment.

Location: Pacific Ocean
Date: 1945, August 19
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051357
Mexicans unload C ration boxes from a helicopter and flooded area in Tampico as a result of hurricane Janet.

Hurricane Janet hits Tampico, Mexico. Mexican men unload C rations boxes from a helicopter. People grouped around United States Navy HUP 2 helicopters. People stand against a truck as they wave. People loaded on a truck in the background. A flooded village with submerged houses. A partly flooded roadway. Cows and horses stranded on a patch of high ground. Stacks of inundated small factories protrude from the water.

Location: Tampico Mexico
Date: 1955, November 1
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051359
Men set their homing pigeons free for a race in Selby, England.

A race for homing pigeons in Selby, England. Men open cages as they set their homing pigeons free for a race. The pigeons fly off in the sky to win the first prize worth $2,500,000.

Location: Selby England United Kingdom
Date: 1936, May 11
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051381
Allied convoy of vehicles being loaded into a LCT and it moves away from Omaha beach in Normandy, France.

Allied convoys at Omaha beach in Normandy, France during World War II. United States Army half tracks, motor carriages, 2 and a half ton trucks tow covered artillery pieces as the convoy moves down a road under the direction of British Military Police officers. Wheels of trucks as it backs into a Landing Craft Tank at the Omaha beach. Trucks and other military vehicles being loaded onto LCT. Ramp being raised and the craft casts off. Allied soldiers aboard the craft.

Location: Normandy France
Date: 1944, June 6
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051423
American army soldiers and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) members are greeted upon arrival in England during World War II

Film begins showing American troops crowding the upper open deck of a ship bringing them to a pier in England during World War 2. They are in full battle gear including steel helmets and bed rolls. As the ship moves against the pier, English women begin throwing scones to the men. Closeup of one chewing on a scone. After the ship docks, an army officer and a First officer of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) walk together up a gang plank to the pier. Her cap is the so-called "Hobby Cap" named for Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Commandant of the WAAC, and it bears the insignia of the Rising Eagle (nicknamed the "Walking Buzzard" by WAACs). She wears Captain's rank insignia ( authorized by unit commanders to help in indicating their seniority within the WAAC, although they had no authority over Army personnel). Next, a group of WAAC members in uniform with steel helmets and bedrolls, walks along the pier. An English policeman (Bobby) is seen in the background. A Scottish piper entertains a WAAC member, by playing his bagpipes. Closeup of a WAAC Sergeant with other WAAC members on the pier. One WAAC member tries playing the bagpipes exerting great breaths in the process.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051439
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