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Images from inside the B-29 bomber "Bockscar" as it drops the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Views from inside the B-29 "Bockscar" as it drops the "fat boy" atomic bomb on Nagasaki, on August 9, 1945. Photographed through the waist gunner's window. Bright sunny day with fair weather cumulus clouds. Static eliminators are seen on trailing edge of aircraft's wing. Mushroom cloud seen at various angles as the B-29 "Bockscar" (sometimes called "Bock's Car" or "Bocks Car") flies by. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 9
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027693
U.S. Navy Commander Ashworth, crew member on B-29 that dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki, interviewed at Tinian, Marianas Islands

Setting: North Field, Tinian,in Mariana Islands. Public Affairs Officer Major John F. Moynahan interviews Commander Frederick L. Ashworth of the U.S. Navy, who was the weaponeer on the B-29 called Bockscar (sometimes "Bock's Car") that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan during World War II. He expressed initial concerns about not being able to bomb their primary target and having, instead, to proceed to their secondary target, Nagasaki.

Date: 1945, August 14
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036279
United States B-29s bomb Japan; Admiral Halsey and fleet near Japan; dropping of atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.

United States attacks Japan during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 aircraft parked on an airfield. B-29s fly in formation and bomb Japan. View of U.S. Navy fleet in waters nearing Japan. Close-up of Admiral Halsey. A U.S. Navy SB2C Helldiver aircraft, displaying tail code RR, from the USS Yorktown (CV-10), is seen in flight. The Navy bombards Hokkaido. Aerial view of the target area. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.

Date: 1945
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051626
Aerial and ground views of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Kure, and Tokyo after atomic and conventional bombing in World War 2

Aerial view of Hiroshima in Japan after the atomic bombing. Destroyed buildings and debris all around the area. Japanese civilians walk on streets of Hiroshima with umbrellas. Wrecked buildings and a few isolated structures in the city. Aerial views of the city of Nagasaki in Japan after Atomic bombing. Citizens walk in paths through the rubble. Abandoned fire fighting equipment is seen. Aerial view of Osaka burned by fire bombs, Fleet of destroyed Japanese ships at Kure (Japanese Naval Base). Destroyed buildings and debris in Tokyo. Civilians walk on streets. Emperor's Imperial Palace, untouched by bombing. Japanese citizens bow and pay homage outside the palace. American planes patrol overhead. United States soldiers freed from Ofuna, an infamous Japanese-operated prison camp outside of Tokyo. Camp buildings at Ofuna Prison Camp seen and a group of freed American soldiers celebrates the liberation. A camp Ofuna guard bowing as freed American soldiers exit the camp.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043424
Officers of British Physical Damage Team, visit a Power Transmission Grid destroyed by atomic explosion in Nagasaki, Japan.

Allied forces in Japan after atomic explosion during World War II. A group of British military officers, members of British Physical Damage Team, examine damage at an electric transformer station in southwestern Nagasaki. Officers observe the destroyed Power Transmission Grid. Destroyed electrical supply poles, damaged transformers. Officers observe damage to the grid. Ruins of electrical poles and distribution lines.

Date: 1945, November 8
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036517
Officers of British Physical Damage Team, visit Nagasaki Prison destroyed by atomic explosion in Japan during World War II.

Allied forces in Japan after atomic explosion during World War II. A group of British military officers, members of British Physical Damage Team, examine damages by atomic explosion. Officers visit the destroyed Nagasaki Prison at approx 1000 feet distance from the ground zero. Officers examine effects of immense heat from explosion, on a discolored steel piece found in debris. Team of British officers, one of them smokes a pipe. Members of British delegation are shown in close ups: Captain W.N. Thomas, Professor of Engineering at Cardiff College, who led the team; Flight Lt. H. Elder; Squadron leader R.G. Whitehead; Squadron Leader J.B. Hawker; Special Duty Officer O.C. Young.

Date: 1945, November 8
Duration: 1 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036518