U.S. Atlantic Fleet amphibious exercise, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Several large ships with smaller vessels surrounding and departing from them. A surfaced submarine. View from aboard ship where Piasecki HUP-3 helicopter lands and takes off again. Submarine (on surface) and a destroyer.View, from ship's porthole, of submarine. View from ship of departing HUP-3 helicopter. Assault boats. View from beach of shells exploding on the beach. Assault ship number 1472 with derricks.Amphibious assault vehicle speeding through water toward beach. Shells bursting inland.Amphibious assault vehicle rides up on sand beach, past observers and photographers. Marines hitting the beach, as they charge from assault boats. One boat has number: 1153-3 painted on hull. Marines charge inland past photographers. Group of helicopters seen in distance, inland.
Atomic Bomb Test Able Day (Operation Crossroads) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Navy personnel aboard a ship of a target fleet off the coast of Bikini Atoll. Cameramen set up their camera aboard the ship. The navy personnel being briefed on the deck of the ship. Personnel practice the measures to be taken during the atomic explosion and they cradle their arms across their face.
Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. U.S. target fleet off the coast. U.S. Navy personnel aboard a patrol boat. The navy personnel hose down the decks of another ship. Guns of various ships.
Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Smoke rises from aerial drop of an atomic bomb over Bikini Atoll. U.S. target ships in the foreground. Smoke rises from a ship underway.
Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Smoke rises from a burning ship of a target fleet after an atomic explosion. A man operates an instrument aboard a ship. Animals like goats and sheep are penned on the deck of the ship. Caged rats on the ship. Sailors open boxes containing rats.
Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The U.S. Navy sailors aboard a target fleet carrier. Airplanes parked on the deck of the carrier. USS Saratoga (CV-3) anchored. A craft alongside a ship. A ship underway.
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