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Each engineer leaves the site; nuclear bombs explode on the site during Operation Sandstone atomic bomb testing in Enewetak Atoll

U.S. Army Engineers and their role in the preparations for the atomic bomb tests on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Sandstone in April-May 1948. View of site for nuclear bomb testing. Engineer personnel leave the site and are transported by landing crafts. Landing crafts comes along side a ship. Crew climb cargo net up and come aboard the ship. Bombs explode on the site and smoke cloud rise during tests. Detonations shown include Test X-Ray, Test Yoke, and Test Zebra. The scenes that follow are all from before the tests, as engineers and personnel work to prepare the test site. Engineers work. Palm trees are removed. Crew works at construction site. Crane hoist construction material. Cubic yards of material are hoisted and placed by crane. Airstrips are built. Planes in flight. Various units in Joint Task Force 7 are recognized for their efforts in contributing to the success of the United States nuclear testing program in Operation Sandstone.

Date: 1948, May
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071373
U.S. sailors aboard a ship watch the Able Day atomic bomb explosion on Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads by the U.S.

U.S. sailors aboard a ship during Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test "Able") by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Sailors on the deck of the ship off the coast of Bikini Atoll. Two men wear head sets. Sailors cradle their arms across their face as the Able Day atomic explosion occurs on the atoll. A mushroom cloud rises. Sailors watch from the deck of the ship. A target fleet in the distant background.

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075075
Able Day atomic bomb explosion on Bikini Atoll and a target fleet off the coast during Operation Crossroads by the U.S.

U.S. sailors aboard a ship during Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Sailors on the deck of the ship off the coast of Bikini Atoll where an atomic explosion occurs. A target fleet on water. Smoke rises from a ship. Personnel in a landing craft depart from the ship. Clouds of smoke behind target ships. Crew hoses a ship from aboard a ship.

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075076
U.S. sailors aboard target ship USS Salt Lake City showing damage caused to it after U.S. atomic bomb explosion on Bikini Atoll, Marsh

Operation Crossroads (Atomic Bomb Test Able Day) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. U.S. sailors aboard a target ship, the USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), showing damage caused after the atomic bomb explosion. Superstructure of a ship. A tank and a seaplane on the ship. U.S. flag flies from the bridge of the ship.

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075080
An underwater Baker bomb detonation destroys ships in target zone off Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads by the U.S.

Operation Crossroads (Baker Day Atomic Bomb Test) by the United States on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. A Baker atom bomb being detonated underwater in the midst of target ships. A mushroom cloud rises after the explosion. A massive water wave overwhelms and destroys target ships as it reaches them.

Date: 1946, July 25
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675075088
Men work and unload camera equipment and air sampling devices from DB-17P aircraft at Enewetak atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Removal of air sampling equipment from an aircraft at Enewetak atoll (sometimes spelled Eniwetok or Eniewetok) in the Pacific Ocean on day of Able shot atomic test on Bikini Islands during Operation Crossroads. A man standing near a trailer. United States Army Air Force DB-17P Flying Fortress drone controllers aircraft parked at an air base. The trailer under the aircraft. Air sampling devices and camera equipment are unloaded from the aircraft. Jeeps parked at the air base. Men working. Other airplanes parked at the air base. Men carrying a crate.

Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675077098