A-DAY BOMB DROP Bikini Part 1

Description

AV Target area: many clouds in FG as the atomic bomb explodes; just a flash of light reveals the shock waves going out; smoke cloud starts mushrooming upward; Bikini Atoll in BG; PAN follows the large mushroom cloud upward (SV; good).CU Mushrooming cloud (boiling inside); PAN down the cloud column; Part of Bikini Atoll in BG; PAN down to the target area.CU Mushroom of the cloud boiling inward; PAN down the column and then to the target area (SV).AV Atomic cloud is starting to drift away from the target area; PAN up the cloud.AV Cloud is starting to rise higher in sky; wing of the B-29 in FG.QUALITY GOOD

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities