Operation Crossroads target ships at Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands. United States damage assessment and radiation monitoring crews visiting target ships after the first atomic bomb test ("Able") during Operation Crossroads. States Navy ships seen include: USS Butte (APA-68) with smoke issuing from her stack, LCT-112,USS MacLeish (DD-220). Pictures taken from small boat show numbers 68, 220, and LCT-112 clearly painted on bows and sterns of ships. Navy hospital ship USS Bountiful (AH-9) is seen. It served as home for radiation monitoring crews. Assessment personnel seen in small boats maneuvering around USS Butte (APA-68)
Views from small boat of target ships and support ship for Operation Crossroads atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands. Ships seen are: LCT-112, USS Butte (APA-68), USS Catron (APA-71),LST-661, LST-133, and the USS Bayfield (APA-33), the support ship for damage assessment teams Small boats used by the assessment teams are seen near stern of the Bayfield..
The first test of a full-scale thermonuclear device in history. Explosion and shockwave during the test codenamed "Ivy Mike" on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, during Operation Ivy. Shock waves cause sea water to travel towards the coast. In the aftermath of the explosion sky turns red . Brief view of observors aboard a ship watching the nuclear blast in the distance. As the explosion recedes the sky turns dark. Smoke rises from the site of the explosion. A huge mushroom cloud of smoke is formed. Ivy Mike was the first successful Hydrogen bomb test.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits Saint Paul Island in the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. Claude Huston and party look down from a bridge. The officials walk over the bridge. Claude Huston walks over a thin pole to cross a water stream. The officials follow him. One of them falls in the water.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston visits the Arctic region to study Arctic fisheries and fur seals. Claude Huston and party at Saint Paul Island. Claude Huston with officials seated on a sledge pulled by a pack of dogs. Some of the officials standing in the background. The dogs pull the sledge on a railway track.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. A security guard opens the gate to let trainees in with their luggage. Two sailors stand next to a board that reads 'Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center'. A group of sailors marching. Officers walk with their baggage. A board reads ''Bulkeley Park'. Faces of naval officers. A lieutenant standing on a platform briefs a group of officers. A tree with white paint at its base in the foreground. The trainees listen to an announcement on a loudspeaker. A man gives out flag signals.
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