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Colonel Robert Walker and Major Vance for a search mission in France.

Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. A sign reads 'Operations and flight plans'. French villa used as temporary headquarters for 84th Air Rescue Group. Air Rescue Squadron Personnel relax on sidewalk in front of building. Air Rescue Squadron Personnel wait for take off schedule. Colonel Robert Walker and Major Vance, Operation Officer in front of the temporary operations building at Nice Airport.

Date: 1954, October
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042030
Funeral procession of American passengers killed due to crash at Nice Airport in France.

Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. French Honor Guard at funeral rites at Nice Airport, France. Officers salute funeral rites. Colonel Rizon, Commander of the 84th Air Rescue Group headed the rescue mission. Members salute as casket is moved. French Honor Guard stands at attention. Italian motorcycle police. Pall bearers remove caskets from hearses and carry them to C-119. Motorcycle guard stands at attention. Funeral procession. Funeral wreath presented by City of Nice to the American passengers killed in crash. Crew chief closes door of aircraft.

Date: 1954, October
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042031
Operation Firestop at Camp Pendleton, California. Experimenting with use of helicopters for firefighting. Testing chemicals

"Operation Firestop" at Camp Pendleton, California. A helicopter lands and personnel board the helicopter. Helicopter in flight. Helicopter hovers near fire truck as pilot picks up an end of a hose and unreels it, laying it out over a hillside. Accordian-folded cotton hose uncoiled from a tray below a helicopter, as firefighter holds the hose. Fire retarding chemicals being tested by rotating treated materials through flames, in a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Field testing by spraying fire retardants on a grass field at Camp Pendleton, and then observing their efficacy when the field is set afire. Large group of firefighters on hill, participating in "Operation Firestop," watch a helicopter flying below them during tests. A truck laden with bags of chemicals, makes its way up a hill through brush.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058693
Mushroom cloud from the Cold War era Totsk nuclear bomb test in the Soviet Union.

Totsk nuclear exercise (codename “Snowball”) undertaken by the Soviet Army in Orenburg, Soviet Union during the Cold War. An immense mushroom cloud forms after a 40-kiloton (170 TJ) RDS-4 atomic bomb detonates 1,150 ft. (350 meters) above the Totskoye range.

Date: 1954, September 14
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079484
Animation predicts fallout path from Bikini Atoll atomic bomb explosion.

Animated map of Bikini Atoll area shows islands of Bikini, Ailinginae, Rongelap, and Rongerik. The predicted fallout radiation strength is posted for each area of the map with accumulated radiation doses to H+50 noted. The decreasing dose from 3000 to 1300 and then 800 is shown. A dotted line demonstrates path of fallout radiation over the Bikini Atoll area. Next, a map of the United States USA Eastern seaboard is shown with Washington D.C. as the origin of the atom bomb explosion and the fallout cloud extending to New York City.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078383
Bikini Atoll graphic shows atomic bomb mushroom cloud and fallout pattern.

Graphic of Bikini Atoll nuclear explosion mushroom cloud with markings indicating 30,000 feet on cloud with +97 of fallout above that point. Topographical display shows fallout pattern from blast.

Date: 1954
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078384