OPERATIONS, "CROSSROADS Part 1

Description

1) LS Overlooking the harbor area and Bikini Atoll; various ships at anchor (used as target ships); PAN, Atom bomb explodes; column of water shoots skyward; base surge spreads, enveloping target ships; mushroom cloud continues to soar upwards; PAN, the mushroom cloud (water) drops back to the ocean; the base surge (large ring of steam) rises higher; PAN up from the surface of the water to the top of the mushroom cloud (SV).2) LS Various ships which were used as the target ships; anchored ship which is used as the observing post in the fg.QUALITY FAIR

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities