U.S. Army Engineers and their role in the preparations for the atomic bomb tests on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Sandstone in April-May 1948. View of site for nuclear bomb testing. Engineer personnel leave the site and are transported by landing crafts. Landing crafts comes along side a ship. Crew climb cargo net up and come aboard the ship. Bombs explode on the site and smoke cloud rise during tests. Detonations shown include Test X-Ray, Test Yoke, and Test Zebra. The scenes that follow are all from before the tests, as engineers and personnel work to prepare the test site. Engineers work. Palm trees are removed. Crew works at construction site. Crane hoist construction material. Cubic yards of material are hoisted and placed by crane. Airstrips are built. Planes in flight. Various units in Joint Task Force 7 are recognized for their efforts in contributing to the success of the United States nuclear testing program in Operation Sandstone.
B-52 lands on an airstrip at the Eniwetok Atoll In Marshall Island. Man checks over B-57 with a geiger counter with two men seated in cockpit . Nose art of aircraft reads 'The Prowler' and shows a picture of a woman kneeling. A F-101 on ramp. Cameraman takes a photo of aircraft damage . Several U.S. Air Force aircraft such as F-101, B-66, B-47, F-84F's and others at the air base.
Amphibious operation by U.S. Marines on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War II. Prayer services aboard a ship for dead U.S. Marines before their burial. Sailors and officers on the deck of a ship as U.S. flag flies at half mast. Dead Marines wrapped in U.S. flag lying on the deck of the ship. An officer salutes. Two officers talk to each other and a U.S. flag in the background. Marines unload equipment from LCP(Landing Craft Personnel) at a beach. Wounded on stretchers unloaded and brought ashore. Dead bodies on stretchers being placed on ground. Two dead bodies on stretchers.
Natives on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War II. Native women and children seated on ground. A Native man with children in a foxhole. Groups of natives seated on the field.
Allied amphibious operation on Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall islands during World War II. A U.S. Marine unfolds a Japanese flag. Sunken Japanese barges in water. Dead Japanese in a boat. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers on a filed. Bloodstained face of a dead. A burned out medium tank. A Japanese half track moves across a field.
U.S. Army Engineers and the part they played in the preparations for the nuclear bomb tests of Operation Sandstone on at Enewetak Atoll , Marshall Islands. Ships and small crafts underway. United States Engineer personnel move for the final installation. Security guard registers every person. Engineers install blast measuring devices on ground. They set up many instruments to be used during tests. An engineer climbs up domestic control station . Engineers in chow line and take food in plates. They eat food. They swim, play during for relaxation. They attend religious services. Engineers make concrete structures and paint a wall. Engineer places pressure gauge in a bunker. Engineers place electronic device underground and cover it with mud by using shovels. They lay steel cables in hook on a road. The aircraft carrying safety crew lands on the road. Front end loader is driven. Aircraft takes off. Engineers stack up the pile. An engineer protects devices from radiation effect by sealing it and closes station door.