Baker nuclear test (part of Operations Crossroads) detonates 21-kiloton bomb MK III, “Helen of Bikini”, on Aomoen Island (Bikini Atoll). A clock is seen on the lower right side of the screen. Baker target ships for the explosion (such as the USS Saratoga) are docked on Bikini Atoll. The Baker test detonates 90 feet (27 m) underwater, halfway to the bottom in water 180 feet (55 m) deep. A column of hot gas bubble forms after detonation. Thicker clouds of hot gas falls, covering Bikini Atoll and ships. Lower clouds around the area dissipates.
Sign reads “State of Illinois Department of Labor Division of Unemployment Compensation Illinois State Employment Service Affiliated with United States Employment Service”. An Illinois State Employment Agency officer picks up a rotary dial phone to make calls. Employee making calls and inspecting files. A Hungarian refugee who has immigrated to the United States talking on phone and smiling. State Employment Agency Officer reads a file on his desk while talking on the phone. A worker lifts a cogwheel and puts it on a bench. Worker grinding teeth on a cogwheel. Hungarian immigrant cleaning a lathe at the Jones-Dabney Co. factory in Chicago. Hungarian refugee wears a white “Jones-Dabney Co.” cap while working. A Hungarian woman works as a draftsman. Draftsmen drawing at drafting tables. External view of a Chicago area Catholic school. Elementary students attend class at a Catholic school in Chicago. Views of children seated at their desks in the classroom, facing the teacher during class. Hungarian refugees attend Catholic school. A priest teaches students reading. “My Captain Boy Savior” is written above the blackboard. Hungarian refugee girls listening in class. Hungarian girl reading a Catholic children’s book, “This is our Town: Faith and Freedom” (by M.A. Sister M. Marguerite, S.N.D.). “Boy Savior Our Guiding Star” written on the wall of the classroom. First grade students learn to write using crayons.
Types of bombs used during World War 2. Animation enumerates the chemical type bombs- namely the gas, smoke, and incendiary bombs. Fragmentation and demolition bombs are the classification of explosive bombs. Cross-section anatomy of a fragmentation bomb. Animation demonstrates a fragmentation bomb falling and exploding on impact. Close view of actual 20 lb. M41 fragmentation bomb and a 23 lb. M40 bomb.
The Roswell incident according to the United States Air Force. Roswell Daily Record newspaper shows article about flying saucers. Popular books on the Roswell incident such as “Roswell Ufo Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-Up of the Century” and “A History of UFO Crashes” by Kevin D. Randle and “The Roswell Incident” by Charles Berlitz. Magazines People and Omni featuring UFO stories. The International UFO Museum (114 N Main St, Roswell, NM 88203, United States) in Roswell, New Mexico. An “EYES ONLY” document prepared for President-Elect Dwight D. Eisenhower. Forensic experts examine a strange body believed to be alien remains. Foreign books on the Roswell incident written in French and Japanese. A New Mexico magazine shows a UFO flying saucer and the words “UFO The Roswell Incident” on its cover. The sliding door of the United States Air Force archives closing. New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff on a newspaper article about UFO. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. The Washington Post January 14, 1994 article with title “GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe”. An accompanying photo depicts a flying saucer and alien remains. View of the Pentagon. A man and a woman uncover records and files from a United States Air Force archives. Archive shelving inside the United States Air Force. Archivists pushing a trolley. Map shows the location of Roswell in New Mexico. Pages of a report being flipped. Page of a report reads “WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT”. Another page reads “An Extraterrestrial Craft”. Page of a report reads “to project “Mogul” be classified “TOP SECRET”. An atomic bomb explosion with red skies in the United States. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 14, 1941, during World War 2. Debris and fire from surprise attack. An acoustic sensor used in Project Mogul. A radar reflecting target being carried by a white weather balloon during Project Mogul. Weather balloons on the beach. A scientist holds a radar target tied to a weather balloon. Scientist lets go of the weather balloon with radar target. A man standing on top of a United States Army bus with satellite dish observe the weather balloon flying upwards. Photographs of “flying disk” fragments from Roswell in 1947. A man holds a fragment claimed to be from a “UFO”. “Flying Disk” debris that are debris made of aluminum foil, rubber, paper, and sticks. Army Air Force officials identifying debris from radar targets and weather balloons found in Roswell. Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey, Commanding Officer of the Eighth Air Force, inspects the remains of a weather balloon and Rawin radar target on July 8, 1947. Colonel Thomas J. DuBose, the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Air Force, sits on the right. Roswell Daily Record front page reads “Gen. Ramey Empties Roswell Saucer”. Brigadier General Roger M. Ramey with weather balloon debris.
The Royal Italian Army fight in battle during World War II. Italian tanks (likely the Carro Armato M13/40) charging in a battlefield. A tank driving up a cliff. Italian troops fire machine gun (Breda M1937) at enemy position. Italian soldiers assume prone position while firing. Explosion from artillery fire in the battlefield. Closer view of a focused soldier firing a machine gun. Soldiers move their machine guns away to fire in another spot. German HE-111 bomber in flight dropping bombs. Italian soldiers load mortars and fire artillery. Italian soldiers load shells and fire artillery in the desert. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler walking together outside.
“Crotinger” written with chalk on brick wall. United States Army 51st Armored Division troops unloading crates of 105mm ammunition from 2-ton truck near Moers, Germany during World War II. Soldiers opening crates and taking out the shells. Wooden crates on the ground. A 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (M7 Priest) firing. An officer crouches down and uses binoculars. Soldiers tow half-tracks running across the field. Troops under fire lying on the battlefield. Other soldiers are digging foxholes. A tank driving past the field. Soldiers running back to their half-tracks.
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