Sailors at control board. Firing depth charges off bow of ship in Germany. Depth charges in air and falling in the water, and cause explosions. USS Frament underway. Destroyer Escort underway leaves a pattern of exploded depth charges in water. Sailors loading depth charges and firing same. Sailor using talker for firing depth charges. (World War II period).
Pilot Harry Crosby steps down from MX-324 at Harper Dry Lake in California. Scenes of Pilot Crosby, engineering staff and several American Air Force officers around the MX-324 "flying wing". Harry Crosby with others posing in front of plane for a group photograph.
XP-56 aircraft takes-off. The plane in flight. Landing of the XP-56 aircraft. Engineering staff and American Air Force officers gathered around the plane as the pilot climbs down from the cockpit.
P-51 aircraft on ramp in United States. Civilian operating large generator. Scene of testing instrument. A plane on ramp. Engine mechanic working on C-82 aircraft . B-29 aircraft and C-82 aircraft in hangar. Engine Mechanic testing protective clothing in water. Engine Mechanic being hoisted into air by L-4 aircraft.
Several C-54 aircraft of Air Transport Command arrive carrying official observers for the Operation Crossroads atomic tests in the Marshall Islands. Tropical showers are occurring. Spare propellers for B-29 planes seen stored onsite.
Military personnel swarm about on the ramp of airfield in Marshall Islands, where B-29, "Dave's Dream," is parked after returning from the Able Test drop of atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, as part of Operation Crossroads atomic testing. Seen is Major General Curtis Lemay, Commander of the 20th Air Force, to which the 509th Bombardment Group its atomic bombers (B-29s) were assigned. He is being interviewed in front of another B-29 atomic bomber, with symbol of atomic explosion on its nose area and the name "Atomizer" written on it.
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