Writing on nose of 313th Bomb Wiing B-29 Superfortress aircraft (named "Enola Gay") that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War 2. The aircraft is parked on Tinian Island, Marianas Islamds. The writing reads "First Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima -August 6, 1945." [Note: At some point this writing was removed, because it is not seen on the nose of the Enola Gay, displayed at at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museaum Annex (The World War II Aviation exhibition at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA.)]
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.
View from the air of atomic Test Able explosion during Operation Crossroads atomic tests. The target fleet of ships in Bikini Lagoon is clearly visible. The mushroom cloud rises rapidly.
Activities following the Test Able atomic explosion at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads. Ground crewman unseals a cable from fuselage and uses it to pull and air sampler box off the top of a B-17 drone aircraft. He avoids being hit by it as it tumbles from atop the airplane. He then drags it to a spot on the ramp, where a man with a geiger counter checks it for radioactivity. Two men transport it on a long pole, to a fork lift. Several other B-17 drones are seen with ground crews offloading them remotely, by means of cables and remote activation of controls inside the B-17 bomb bays. A forklift operator loads an item into the rear hatch of a waiting C-54 transport aircraft.
U.S. Navy F-4B aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 9 (CVW-9) being launched from deck of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) in 1966. F-4B on catapult. F-4B launched. Steam rolls down catapult track. Blast fence lowered. Another F-4B taxis onto catapult. Personnel in background. F-4B being launched with after burners. Signal man in dungarees sending message on signal light. F-4B making recovery. F-4B on deck after recovery. Signal man sending message on signal light from rim of signal bridge. Red shirts wheeling bombs under aircraft. Activity on flight deck. Group of red shirted men. Island seen in far background. A-4C aircraft of Heavy Attack Squadron Four (VAH-4), Carrier Wing Five (CVW-5), taxiing over deck. Tow bars stacked. A-4C on deck. Tractor moves by. Aircraft being launched. Men leaving deck. Switch to the personnel on catapult. Steam rolling down the track. Green shirted men and red shirted men watch aircraft recover. Aircraft zips into the scene. F-4B's being lowered on deck edge elevator. Personnel and aircraft on flight deck.
"USS Enterprise" painted on side of an A-4E aircraft on flight deck of USS Enterprise. Words "USS Enterprise", below that, "Navy" painted on side of an A-6A aircraft. Letters "VF-92", below that "Navy", painted up above in the corner. USS "Enterprise" painted on side of an F-4 aircraft. "USS Enterprise", below that "Navy" painted on side of an A-3B aircraft. Emblems (patches) of Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW-9) and Navy Fighter Squadron (VA-113) "Stingers" are displayed. VA-113 and logo, a "Bee" with a stinging tail is also seen painted on A-3B aircraft. Words "USS Enterprise", below that words "Navy" painted on the side of an E-2A aircraft. Words "The Big E" painted in white letters on side of a ship's helcopter.
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