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B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands after Test Able atomic bomb drop on Bikini Atoll

The B-29 "Dave's Dream" returns to airfield in Marshall Islands, after dropping atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll, in Test Able of Operation Crossroads, on July 1st, 1946, during U.S. nuclear testing. The B-29 lands and taxis to a parking place on the ramp. The area around the aircraft is cordoned off and the crew is confined therein as they deplane. Navy photographers take photos. An interviewer talks to crew members. The crew walks away from the aircraft along a cordoned pathway between numerous military personnel on hand to greet them on this historic occasion. The aircraft, number 44-27354, was actually participating in its second atomic mission. It also served as a photographic platform for the mission to Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when it was named "Big Stink.". Pilot for the Bikini mission was Major Woodrow Swancutt of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The aircraft was renamed "Dave's Dream" in honor of Captain David Semple, a bombardier killed during the crash of another B-29 on March 7, 1946, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. (World War II period).

Location: Marshall Islands
Date: 1946, July 1
Duration: 3 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034527
Scenes staged by USAAF pilots and ground crews on a foggy day at Debden airfield during World War II

P-51 airplane, of the U.S. Army Air Forces 334th Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, piloted by Lieutenant Timothy J "Tim" Cronin of Oconomowoc, WI., taxis and parks on apron, at Debden Airfield in England during World War 2. Six ground crewmen run toward plane and greet the pilot. Scene is repeated close up. Pilot in cockpit of plane uses starter to turn the propeller a bit to make it appear he has just taxied in. Again, the ground crewmen run to and surround his airplane. Lieutenant Cronin standing between two other pilots. One of them, Maj Howard "Deacon" Hively, of Athens, Ohio, holds a wad of British currency, which he shares with the other two. They shake hands. Lieutenant Clifton and Captain David W Howe, of East Hickory, PA., conversing and.Looking skyward determining weather. Lieutenant Clarence L. Boretsky, of Milwaukee, WI, talking and laughing with two other pilots. Captain Carl F. Brown of Huntingdon, PA..shows patch on his leather flying jacket displaying the 334th Logo superimposed on an American Eagle (Alluding to the Eagle Squadron beginnings of the 4th Fighter Group.)

Location: Debden England United Kingdom
Date: 1945, January 15
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034696
Airfield personnel watch as B-29 bomber lands on Isley Field base of U.S. Army Air Force in Saipan Mariana Islands, during WWII.

B-29 bombers arrive at Saipan in Mariana Islands during World War II. B-29 bomber aircrafts of the 11th Commanding Unit of the United States Army Air Force land at Isley Field in Saipan. Airfield personnel watch keenly as a plane makes landing on the runway. The plane takes a left turn and follows a guide jeep.

Location: Saipan Northern Mariana Islands
Date: 1944, October 12
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036186
German surrender in WWII: Arrival of delegations at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin, tour through destroyed Berlin

Flags of Allied nations hoisted by soldiers at a ceremony at Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Military Generals of England and the United States descend from a plane. Lord Tedder and United States Army Air Force General Carl Spaatz shake hands and talk with Russian officers including Marshal Sokolovsky. German Field Marshal Keitel and others in his delegation arrive at the airport. Military band plays and Russian honor guard marches as British, American, and Soviet officials observe, while Keitel and his staff consult over paperwork in a car. Motorcade drives through ruined city of Berlin. Many views of various damaged and destroyed buildings and bridges filmed from a moving vehicle in the motorcade. Rubble all over the city roads and citizens moving about the streets, some observing the motorcade. Views of the building in Karlshorst, in a suburb of Berlin, where signing of the Nazi surrender takes place. Views of the Meeting hall (converted from a mess hall) before the signing . Views of the various military officials in the building before the signing of the surrender. Excerpt from Japanese newsreel. (World War II period).

Location: Berlin Germany
Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675036538
United States ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor arrives at Nha Trang airfield in South Vietnam

United States ambassador to South Vietnam Maxwell D. Taylor leaves 23rd Infantry Division headquarters. Ambassador Taylor gets down from an American Army plane as he arrives at Nha Trang airfield. The U.S. ambassador is introduced to American and Vietnamese officers. A board reads, '8th field hospital, Nha Trang' with a map of the hospital. (Vietnam War period).

Location: Nha Trang Vietnam
Date: 1965, May 15
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038145
Americans taken as prisoners being served food at Nichols Airfield in the Philippines (WW2)

American prisoners of war, captured by Japanese troops during World War II, being served food by Red Cross at Nichols Airfield near Manila, Philippines. An American soldier writes in a notebook. Two other soldiers stand near a dish antenna as one of them speaks over a phone.

Location: Muntilupa Philippines
Date: 1945, March 9
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038481
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