OPERATIONS CROSSROADS, ATOM BOMB TEST, BIKINI ATOLL Part 3

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Signal Corps 111 ADC 7171 ADC 7171 SOURCE: AFCF (US Navy) FILM: ARCH & APC MP 949' ea Silent RG 111 Accession III-NAV-210 OPERATIONS CROSSROADS, ATOM BOMB TEST Bikini, Atoll (No captions) 1946 The words "Kilroy Was Here" on outside bulkhead of ship's cabin. Aboard ship. Sailors are placing white rats, goats, in specially constructed cages. CU, rats being put into cage. CU, cage containing rats and three recently born young ones. Special water receptacle for rat cage is filled with water. Making notation of rat cages. LSs & Pans, smoke from bomb burst directly after it has struck. Aboard one of the ship during the blast, the men are seated on the deck with their heads in their arms. Several cameramen set up to take pictures. Darkness envelopes the deck; later on the atmosphere clears. HS, observers on unidentified vessel looking through binoculars. Aboard the USS Paramint: men wearing headsets. Officer speaking over microphone; men looking through binoculars, etc. CU, another man broadcasting over microphone. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER, 35-11 35th Ave., LIC 1, NY ERBS/me

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities