Shot on location at Bikini in 1946, three declassified films of Operation Crossroads and the Test Able and Test Baker atomic bomb tests.
British Movietone Moment – Bikini Atom Bomb (4:03)
OPERATION CROSSROADS – Able and Baker Day Tests 1946 (26:36)
Project Crossroads – Nuclear Test Film 1946 (42:33)
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My father was at the Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads on board the U.S.S Fall River. He died in 2001 from bladder cancer which his physician indicated was due to a A-Bomb blast. So at 78 with 30 years in the Navy, 21 active and 9 reserve he succumbed to that day in 1946. He wrote a three page memoir of the blasts and it was so frightening just reading about. He serve from 1940 to 1961 and then retired as a Company Commander at North Island in San Diego. He served in Korea also on the U.S.S Noble. He was at D-Day and served on an LD1 landing/assault craft at Omaha Beach. He taught Navel History/Trigonometry and chemical and fire control at the base. He stellar man and sailor. He is greatly missed still.
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