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Devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan in World War II

U.S. War Department film showing devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 2. Opening scene is darkness of predawn in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16, July, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM. Suddenly, a huge explosion lights up the sky. A fireball and mushroom shaped cloud form. Closer view of the explosion from another camera. Following the initial explosion, the ensuing sound is a continuous roar. Another view is shown, from a third camera location. It highlights the boiling fire and smoke of the explosion. These scenes document the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, code named "Trinity". Change of scene shows glimpse of the Manhattan Project B Reactor site at Hanford, Washington, as viewed from a car driving past. Closeup of the facility, from right up against a boundary fence. Glimpses of other Manhattan Project facilities in New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and another view of the Hanford, Washington facility. Next, a rough topographical map of Japan is shown. Closeup of elevated railroad train traveling in Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial Japanese Army motorized vehicles are shown on parade, including fully tracked open personnel carriers with soldiers aboard and Type 94 Tankettes being driven by individual soldiers. Japanese infantry marching in full field gear including shouldered rifles with fixed bayonets. Closeup of a Japanese Army officer. Glimpse of Japanese support troops, such as quartermaster elements, in black uniforms. Japanese technicians in white lab coats at a wartime facility. Japanese Navy Warships being launched from Hiroshima ship yards. A lone B-29 bomber seen in flight over clouds. Its tail number, 42-63735 is clearly seen. It displays a large "05" on it upper tail. (This is not the "Enola Gay" whose tail number was 44-86292.) Closeup of one of the aircraft's engines with propeller turning. Glimpse upward from interior of the aircraft. Scene shifts to aerial photograph of Hiroshima with overlay depicting the bomb strike zone. Animated map showing explosion and precise point ot detonation above the junction of the Motoyasu and Ota Rivers. A view at the ground of destruction from the atomic explosion. An American soldier stands in the midst of the destruction. Slabs of heavy concrete are destroyed. View looking East from ground zero, past a burned tree trunk in the foreground, where the shells of several stronger buildings still stand amidst a sea of rubble. To the South, hardly anything is left standing. Looking West, everything is essentially leveled.

Date: 1946
Duration: 5 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027674
German forces engage Americans in battle of Monte Cassino, Italy, in World War II, and take American prisoners.

Map of Italy showing major cities. During a battlefield lull,in World War 2, in Italy, a German soldier reads a newpaper called the "Southern Front." View of Monte Cassino,Italy, with German troops taking cover amongst war debris. Fencing and signs identify minefields. German soldiers with their weapons, hidden in foliage. German soldier looks through binoculars as American forces bombard the town of Monte Cassino. German soldier, seeking cover, jumps over a stone wall. Smoke rises from the U.S. bombardment. German officers consult in a dugout. German soldiers move stealthily across a stream and through battle scarred landscape. Some take up positions and fire machine guns, rifles, and rifle grenades toward American lines. They advance from their trenches and come across fallen American soldiers on the field. They encounter one crawling, and several others from the U.S. 34th Division, whom they take prisoner. They remove their equipment and weapons, and smoke the American cigarettes. Behind the lines, a man in civilian clothes questions the captured American soldiers. A German soldier uses periscopic binoculars to spot targets for German artillerymen firing heavy weapons. Explosions seen in valley below as shells burst.

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027677
U.S. Battleships at sea in Pacific Theater. Group of warships includes destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers

U.S. Battleships at sea in Pacific Theater. The battleships Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, South Dakota move in column at the sea. They maneuver in a group of U.S. warships, including destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers. Aircraft are seen launching from the USS Essex (CV-9) aircraft carrier in the distance.

Date: 1943, November 5
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027741
Apollo 204 Review Board activities. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States.

Apollo 204 review board at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States. Technician works on a machine. 'Southern Research Institute' written on back of his lab coat. He presses a button. '1468 B Electron Micro-Analysis' written on the door of a room. Slate reads "MSOB Malfunction Lab."

Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027839
A skirmish rages at Rizal Stadium and dead bodies of the soldiers in Manila, Philippines (WW2)

United States soldiers marches south from Tarlac to Manila. Map of Manila and surrounding areas under United States control. A sign reads “Notice Picking Flowers Absolutely Prohibited”. Soldiers crawl under a hole in a wall. A skirmish rages in Rizal Stadium (Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Adriatico St, Malate, Maynila, 1004 Kalakhang Maynila), a baseball stadium in Malate, Manila. Soldiers walk on streets of Escolta, the business district of Manila. They cross a bridge on a waterway. They move on tanks in the field and pass a waterway. Animated map shows captured parts of Manila. Soldiers in the wrecked stadium. Soldiers fire in the stadium. Smoke arises due to firing. Soldiers walk on the street and engage Japanese in house to house and building to building combat. Buildings and houses along the sides of the street. Soldiers fire on the street. Wounded Japanese soldier looks up at U.S. Army soldiers near a street corner. Wounded American soldiers carried by fellow U.S. soldiers to safety and to receive first aid from medics. Dead soldiers on the street. Dead body of a soldier near barricades. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028172
Mountains, plains and canyons in the Southwestern region of the United States.

Scenes of the South Western region of the United States. A map shows Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Scenic sweeping wide views of Mountains, plains and canyons in the United States in lofty mountainous area. View of the Grand Canyon. Tourists visit ruins. Ruins of Aztec dwellings in the Chaco Canyon area. The Pueblos at Santa Fe. Native American Indian Navaho Indians weave rugs. Indian Men and cowboys on wheel carts and horses in a dry area. Women sow seeds in the farm. Cattle grazing and Sheep graze in a field. A copper mine.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028173