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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
A task force crew puts out fire on a 5" turret and carry empty ammunition crates while underway off the shore of Saipan.

A U.S. Navy Task Force underway in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Saipan, Mariana Islands during the Battle of Saipan of World War II. The task force crew fires artillery. Smoke rising in the background. Battleships and destroyers underway. Men put out fire on a 5" turret using a hose. A landing craft underway. Men carry empty ammunition crates.

Date: 1944, June 16
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071741
Japanese air raid on Saipan destroys American jeeps, aircraft and trucks during World War II.

Japanese air raid on Saipan, Mariana Islands during World War II. Tracers, flares, and bomb bursts during Japanese night raid. Several attacking planes crash. Blazing hangars and demolished U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers and B-29 Superfortress bombers on the ground. Bulldozers remove the wrecked aircraft from an airstrip. Men try to put off fire. Smashed trucks, jeeps and aircraft being inspected by U.S. soldiers.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074724
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