A man and a woman carry their belongings as they evacuate Bikini Atoll during U.S. preparations for nuclear weapon testing under Operation Crossroads. Their young children follow behind them. Native women carrying sacks and boxes on their shoulders. A man pushes a canoe loaded with boxes in the water. Bikini Atoll coast. A boy paddles with a small canoe. Native man pushes outrigger in shallow water (loaded with belongings). A moving DUKW. Belongings of island natives are gathered on the beach before evacuation. United States Navy personnel on LST (LST 1108) wait for natives.
Natives moves a canoe on the beach during the evacuation of Bikini Atoll before U.S. nuclear weapon testing program “Operation Crossroads”. Native man pushes outrigger in shallow water. A naked boy pulls rope from canoe. Native boys pulling a canoe in shallow water. Native men and boys loading outriggers onto LST by means of sling and crane. Crane attempts to lift an outrigger. Outrigger falls back into water. Native men fasten the canoe with ropes. Men jump out of the outrigger while being lifted by a crane from the LST LST (Landing Ship, Tank).
Natives sail craft down Bikini Atoll beach before Operation Crossroads evacuation (nuclear weapon testing program by the United States). Bikini Atoll natives are seen in sailboat. A United States Navy Martin PBM Mariner patrol bomber flying boat in the background. The Martin PBM Mariner seaplane at anchor in Bikini Atoll lagoon.
A Bikini Atoll native woman washing clothes on the beach. Her child sits beside her. A United States Navy doctor uses stethoscope to check on a baby. United States doctor checking native infants and children. Another doctor giving adults physical examinations prior to departure from Bikini. Doctor uses stethoscope on a Bikini Atoll man. Native children playing with paper cups, rattling coral in them. Native girls and women sewing and weaving, some women carry small children. A United States soldier holds a clapboard in front of native women. Native women bring pillows, mats, and baskets outside their house. Native women wrapping up items and belongings prior to departure from Bikini Atoll, before nuclear weapon testing by the U.S. in Operation Crossroads.
Brief views of Allied bombing raids in Japan during World War II. A group of United States Army Air Force aircraft flying over Japan. An army cemetery in front of a building in the Pacific. United States Army Air Force aerial machine gun strafe Japanese positions on the Aleutian Islands. A chaplain praying over a coffin with the American flag draped over it. Aerial view of bombs falling and exploding into Japanese positions in China. Consolidated B-24 Liberator dropping bombs over Wake Island. View of Wake Island. Graves of U.S. troops on Wake Island, Burma, and other recaptured Pacific islands. Allied Airborne Infantry on the jungles of Burma (Myanmar). Gunshots are heard on the background. Two United States Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft flying to the Philippines. Allied bombardment of Hollandia (present day Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia). Grave of an unidentified soldier. United States troops land on a beach. A Howitzer is towed across a river. Soldiers rolling a barrel of oil. Snowplow truck clearing snow in front of a bomber. United States troops unload supplies at a snow-covered airbase.
Snippets from various Japanese movies circa 1937. View of a Japanese coastal town . A Japanese man in western attire talks to his wife at home. The wife, wearing a kimono, looks away from her husband sadly. Cars driving on hilly road. A Japanese woman chatting as she sits between two men in the back of a convertible car in the countryside. A woman talks to a man smoking on a dock. She walks towards a docked cargo ship. Men and children fishing in the countryside. Cars and trains are seen moving on a bridge in the background. A man and a child walk past boats on the beach. The child avoids the waves as they walk.
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