United States Army troops move out of the underground trench offering some protection, following Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapon test during Operation Doorstep during the Cold War. Dark smoke from nuclear blast. TV crews capture the mushroom cloud formed after the atomic bomb explosion. A helicopter carrying Federal Civil Defense Administration Director Val Peterson lands. Val Peterson is escorted out of the helicopter. Val Peterson talks about his experience during the nuclear test. American physicist and Atomic Commission Test director Dr. Alvin C. Graves gives an interview. Radiological Safety Team helicopter takes off. Radiological Safety Team personnel wears a gas mask. Houses far from ground zero shows minimal damage. Blown up windows and frames are seen from damaged houses. Mannequins posed inside a living room and dining room before a nuclear test. Mannequins in disarray and a trashed living room after the blast. A mannequin lying on debris from nuclear blast. Plaster and window damage in bedroom. Decimated house shows total destruction near ground zero. A mass of rubble and debris. Roof and walls blown into several sections. A destroyed car under the roof. First floor disintegrated and second floor collapsed inside a house near nuclear test site ground zero. Pushed back wooden girders blocked stairway leading to basement. Part of the kitchen and dining room has fallen into the basement. A mannequin is seen in the basement. A cracked beam in box type shelter. A group of mannequins inside a box type nuclear shelter. Cars left at the Nevada Test Site show significant damage.
A man and a woman carry their belongings as they evacuate Bikini Atoll during U.S. preparations for nuclear weapon testing under Operation Crossroads. Their young children follow behind them. Native women carrying sacks and boxes on their shoulders. A man pushes a canoe loaded with boxes in the water. Bikini Atoll coast. A boy paddles with a small canoe. Native man pushes outrigger in shallow water (loaded with belongings). A moving DUKW. Belongings of island natives are gathered on the beach before evacuation. United States Navy personnel on LST (LST 1108) wait for natives.
Natives loading a United States DUKW with native gear in Bikini Atoll for evacuation. Natives loading their belongings onto LST prior to disembarking from Bikini Atoll. A DUKW driving up onto ramp of LST after the natives. Natives form a straight line as they board the LST. Bikini Atoll natives walking up ramp into LST. Children leaving the LST for the beach. More natives picking up gear on beach carrying it down to LST. (During preparations for nuclear weapon testing by the U.S. in Operation Crossroads.)
“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.
Ordnance men and maintenance men prepare aircraft at a United States airbase during the Vietnam War. Ordnance personnel with bombs. A pair of mechanics prepare the propeller of an aircraft. A mechanic speaks about his work in the narration. Mechanics inspecting different aircraft. A soldier wipes his face after washing. Soldiers line up for breakfast. An African American soldier receives food. Forward air controllers inspect Cessna O-1 Bird Dog plane. Vietnamese airborne troops double check their equipment. MATS aircraft with belly door open before Vietnamese airborne troops board aircraft.
State visit of Bulgarian Tsar Boris III in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. King Alexander I (Aleksandar I) of Yugoslavia meets Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria. Tsar Boris III and King Alexander I and other officials walk in the snow together. The two monarchs salute in front of a monument and lay a wreath at the base of the memorial. (Based on text descriptions, this is possibly the original, smaller memorial to the Unknown Serbian Soldier, which was later replaced by the Monument to the Unknown Hero that was built atop the demolished Žrnov and completed in 1934. The original memorial, near Žrnov at the Avala mountain, was completed in June 1922. It reportedly had a plaque that read, "To the fallen heroes in the wars for liberation and unification 1912-1918, this monument is erected by the thankful people of the Vračar District. Consecrated on 1 June 1922." Another inscription read: "Unknown Serbian soldier confirmed by the commission on 29 November 1921". The text descriptions of the form and size of the 1922 memorial appear to match the memorial seen in this footage.) Honor guard of Yugoslavian soldiers depart the snow covered memorial area carrying a flag bearing the greater coast of arms of Yugoslavia. In next scene, Tsaritsa Giovanna of Italy, wife of Tsar Boris III, and Queen Maria of Yugoslavia leaving the royal residence in Belgrade. Final scenes show a car arriving in front of the royal residence and officers emerge. Another car arrives and women emerge to enter the residence. A brief frame or two of the film around timecode 02:29 shows four young children posing for the camera. The one on the far left, in the wide brim hat, is possibly Peter II Karađorđević, later King Peter II of Yugoslavia. Final scenes show the officials royalty emerging from the residence again and posing on the front steps.
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