The U.S. Army secures Eniwetok Island in the Marshall Islands during World War II. U.S. soldiers in the damaged area of Eniwetok. Tall palms and a wrecked Japanese tank. Burned supplies.
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.
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.
U.S. naval operations off Enewetak Island in the Marshall Islands during World War 2. A Vought OS2U Kingfisher float plane, with sailor standing in its cockpit, is hoisted on a crane. Camera focuses on a U.S. Porter Class Destroyer moving to the right, and then pans astern, to another one headed in the opposite direction and several destroyer escorts. Next, a Northampton CA class heavy cruiser is seen. Closeup of 3-inch being fired aboard a warship. Scene switches to Five-inch 25 caliber guns being fired from Northampton class cruiser. Camera pans horizon. Scene shifts to deck of Northampton CA class cruiser and catapulting of its OS2U Kingfisher observation plane. Smoke rising from Naval gunfire striking the island. landing craft seen in the water. Image temporarily obscured by heavy smoke.
The U.S. Army secures Enewetak Island in the Marshall Islands during World War II. U.S. soldiers in an LVT (Landing Vehicle, Tracked). A U.S. BB (battleship) fires guns.
The U.S. Army secures Enewetak Island in the Marshall Islands during World War II. Men on a beach. The U.S. flag. A soldier displays a Japanese sword. A wrecked 40 mm gun. An LST (Landing Ship, Tank) in the background. Transports and landing crafts underway. Shells burst on the shore.
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