U.S. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson with astronaut John Glenn in Florida after he successfully orbited the earth.Officials and employees stand on either side of road to greet John Glenn and Vice President Johnson. NASA hangar in the background. VC-137 aircraft lands Patrick Air Force Base. NASA emblem on a stand. Astronaut John Glenn, accompanied by his wife, Annie and their children, David and Carolyn, walks with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. John Glenn is besieged by photographers. Lyndon B. Johnson with John Glenn and his wife in a car. Men stand around them to take pictures and John Glenn gives out autographs. An enthusiastic crush of admirers.
B-52Ds in SEA. Truck towing bomb bay rack on dolly pulling up beside B-52D at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. Men pushing empty bomb rack dolly away from B-52D. Men pushing a dolly loaded with bomb racks and another with a machine.
Maintenance team working on B-52D tail turret at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. A man climbing up a ladder to B-52D's tail turret. He works and then signals to the man sitting inside B-52D.
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.
The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).
Military personnel swarm about on the ramp of airfield in Marshall Islands, where B-29, "Dave's Dream," is parked after returning from the Able Test drop of atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, as part of Operation Crossroads atomic testing. Seen is Major General Curtis Lemay, Commander of the 20th Air Force, to which the 509th Bombardment Group its atomic bombers (B-29s) were assigned. He is being interviewed in front of another B-29 atomic bomber, with symbol of atomic explosion on its nose area and the name "Atomizer" written on it.
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