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Enola Gay mission to drop “Little Boy” atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan (World War 2)

Enola Gay atomic bomb mission over Hiroshima, Japan during World War 2. The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, prepares to leave for the Hiroshima mission. Army Armed Forces maintenance men and Enola Gay crew prepare the Enola Gay in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands, checking their watches as the glance at the horizon. Maintenance men check bomb bay doors before closing. Pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets looks out of cockpit window of Enola Gay. Nose art of Enola Gay is seen. Close up of controls with hand show "starter" and "engine primer." Enola Gay engine starts and one of it propellers turns. The Enola Gay takes off from North Field, in the Northern Mariana Islands. Point of view through B-29 cockpit window as plane speeds down runway. Motion picture cameraman films the take off. The Enola Gay seen overhead as it leaves for Japan. Aerial View of Iwo Jima Island in Japan. The Enola Gay begins slow climb to bombing altitude over Iwo Jima. Crew member, possibly Tibbets, uses a pair of binoculars. Aerial view of Hiroshima. Enola Gay crew check instruments last time before dropping. The Enola Gay begins its bomb run. Crew bombardier turning a dial on a bomb site. View of Enola Gay with bomb bay doors open. Moving gauge pointer as bomb is dropped and seen exiting bomb bay. The Enola Gay banks away from Hiroshima at high speed. Aerial view in color of mushroom cloud forming over Hiroshima after the atomic bomb detonates in the city. (This actually shows the Nagasaki bomb blast from August 9, 1945, not the Hiroshima blast, despite the statements of the narrator in this edited film). Gigantic mushroom cloud from atomic bombing.

Location: Hiroshima Japan
Date: 1945, August 6
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079741
Bombing by the U.S. troops, Landing Craft Vehicles lowered and Landing Craft Personnel circle in Eniwetok Atoll.

Battle of Eniwetok during World War II. United States Ship Battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) at Eniwetok Atoll (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok) in the Marshall Islands. Stern view of hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) in the pacific. Bombardment by the United States forces. Water splashes due to bombardment. Officer of United States looks at the artillery bombing by telescope. Troops on deck. Landing Craft Vehicles (LCV) are lowered from ship. Troops on LCV. Landing Craft Personnel (LCP) circle in the water.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, March
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021286
Amphibious tank approaches the beach, unidentified plane in flight and U.S. officer look at the chart in Eniwetok, Atoll.

Battle of Eniwetok during World War II. Amphibious tank approaches the beach. U.S. soldiers on the beach. Another tank hits the beach. Tank moves up the slope, soldiers around it. Tank unloaded from Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT). Medium tank passes. Palm trees destroyed. U.S. officers look at the chart. Unidentified plane in flight. Troops on island.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021287
U.S. flag at half mast, unloading of equipment from LCP and Soldiers carry dead bodies on a stretcher in Eniwetok, Atoll.

Battle of Eniwetok during World War II. United States flag at half mast. United States soldiers and officers on a ship. Dead bodies of U.S. soldiers on stretchers. Officer reads a prayer. The U.S. flag. Soldiers salute. U.S. officers and soldiers on Landing Craft Personnel (LCP). Soldiers unload equipment from LCP. Soldiers carry wounded on a stretcher. Soldiers carry dead bodies on stretchers. Dead bodies on Island.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1944, March
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021288
U.S. marines in mopping up operations during battle of Saipan in World War II

Final phase in battle of Saipan, during World War 2. U.S. marine throws hand grenade at Japanese defenders dug in bunker on the island. After the grenade explodes, marines fire rifles at the bunker. Bodies of two fallen Japanese soldiers.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, July
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028058
Ammunition transferred from USS Tennessee, BB-43, to USS Phelps, DD-360, during invasion of Saipan in World War II

Battleship USS Tennessee, BB-43, crew handles lines as a destroyer comes alongside during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands, in World War 2. Ammunition transferred from the Tennessee to destroyer USS Phelps, DD-360. Sailors carry projectiles and slide powder cases down a plank to the USS Phelps.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, June 18
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035314
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