Baker nuclear test (part of Operations Crossroads) detonates 21-kiloton bomb MK III, “Helen of Bikini”, on Aomoen Island (Bikini Atoll). A clock is seen on the lower right side of the screen. Baker target ships for the explosion (such as the USS Saratoga) are docked on Bikini Atoll. The Baker test detonates 90 feet (27 m) underwater, halfway to the bottom in water 180 feet (55 m) deep. A column of hot gas bubble forms after detonation. Thicker clouds of hot gas falls, covering Bikini Atoll and ships. Lower clouds around the area dissipates.
U.S. Navy Patrol Boat Base 21 at Mios Woendi Island in Dutch New Guinea during World War II. An officer in a briefing hut with a map in the background. Other officers enter the hut and take their seats. An intelligence officer at the map as he briefs the officers. The officers take down notes. They look at a map. The intelligence officer points at an island on the mp.
Basketballs match between Long Island University's Blackbirds and Valparaiso at Madison Square Garden in New York. Match in progress. Spectators watch. Crowd applauds. The Blackbirds win.
P-47 aircraft of U.S. Army Air Forces 464th Fighter Squadron, 507th Fighter Group, strafe a town on Kyushu Island, Japan at the end of World War 2. Aerial view of a town. Places in town on fire. Thick black smoke rises.
United States Army Air Force soldiers at their base in the Japaneses island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A C-47 plane of the U.S. Air Force landing at Central Field landing strip. Alongside the strip, tents of soldiers and military vehicles parked. Two soldiers talk with each other. A tent with sign 'Iwo Jima Inn Coffee Shop'. Airmen and soldiers talk and drink their coffee inside the tent .
United States Army Air Force at their base in the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, during World War II. A PV-1 plane of the U.S. Air Force makes crash landing on landing strip. Plane makes a belly landing and crashes into fields close to the strip. Crew moves towards the crashed plane in a jeep. Injured pilot taken out on a stretcher and sent for treatment in ambulance. Ruptured part near the cockpit. Crew surrounds the plane.
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