Activities following the Test Able atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads. Ground crewman unseals a cable from fuselage and uses it to pull and air sampler box off the top of a B-17 drone aircraft. He avoids being hit by it as it tumbles from atop the airplane. He then drags it to a spot on the ramp, where a man with a geiger counter checks it for radioactivity. Two men transport it on a long pole, to a fork lift. Several other B-17 drones are seen with ground crews offloading them remotely, by means of cables and remote activation of controls inside the B-17 bomb bays. A forklift operator loads an item into the rear hatch of a waiting C-54 transport aircraft.
Sailors on Lafayette 616 submarine. Crew assembling Mark 2 missile. Missile inserted into the liner. A man tightening bolts. Crewman preparing hoisting frame. Crewmen fits hoisting frame around the missile. Closing with a lid. Liner put on a trailer truck. Hoisting unit attached to the liner. A man is attaching plug. Man shows remote control instrument by pointing out. A man reversing phase by switching to another output. Man opens the switch box and turns the switch on. A man climbs the shaft. A man unlocks a lid. A truck is taking missile coming out of the assembly plant.
A man at a Launcher Control Panel. Optical alignment trolleys are made ready. Mechanical interlocks are opened. A man enters ejection chamber. A man roping off the exclusion area. Muscle hatches and hydraulic system secured. Loading fixtures mounted on submarine's launching tube. Ground wire lowered by supervisor.
A trailer backs. Crane's hook attached to hoisting unit. A duplicate of the remote control given to one of the loading crew. A man from loading crew checking. Wire attached to missile lifts it. A man operating crane. Missile swing to the dock. Animation of loading fixture and parts of missile. The submarine standby to receive loading fixture. Man signals to lower down the loading fixture. Crew transferring the liner to the submarine. Dock crew locking liner on the submarine. Animation of responsibilities of crew members.
Weapons Officer giving order. Assistant Weapons Officer at Launcher control panel. Scene of control panel. An Officer observes through umbilical access. A man sees through small access in liner, on dock. A man enters ejection chamber. Animation of the base of the missile. A man comes out of the eject chamber. Scene of a control panel. A man looks into an Optical machine. A man attaches alignment tool to missile. Alignment tool removed. Hoisting frame detached. Umbilical cable attached by an officer. Mechanical interlocks established. Loading fixtures removed from the submarine. The launcher tube moved over. Plastic supports lowered around the sides of the missile. A diaphragm is lowered and fixed. A capsule swings and entered into the submarine. The 16 Polaris missile launching.
U.S. Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine activity during the cold war of the 1960s and 1970s. U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618) on surface of water, and heading out to sea from a port. Various Navy ships at a port. An officer holds a megaphone. Crew standing on submarine. Brief view of USS Von Steuben (SSBN-632) at port. Submarine at sea. It dives into the sea. Crew members at control panels. Interior views of nuclear submarine. Life and work of U.S. Navy submarine sailors while at sea. Crew members talking with each other. Captain of the crew supervises. A man measures distance between points on a map. A hidden switchboard revealed. Figures seen on a paper. Men testing an instrument. The instrument shows green lines. Crew members at a large control panel. A mechanic testing instrument and another member of crew comes and see him working. Scene of a security area. A sailor does weightlifting exercises by lifting a barbell.
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