atomcentral | Operation Crossroads Reference Reel @atomcentral | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
This clip contains every one of the 77 reels at the National Archives comprising of 7 hours and 12 minutes under the control number 342-USAF-34282A. These are the 35-mm black and white reels shot during Operation Crossroads Able.
NOTE: I do not have this material in any higher resolution than this, i.e. no HD, no 2K. And the National Archives is closed due to Covid-19 so its impossible at the moment to obtain higher resolution copies from NARA either.
342-USAF-34282A
Summary: Film coverage of Project Crossroads, a project of the two atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in l946 and including Able Day test of an atomic bomb drop from a B-29 on 1 July 1946, and Baker Day test, the underwater detonation of an atomic bomb on 25 July 1946. Included are B-29 operators, damage to the target fleet, and personalities including Maj Gen Curtis LeMay, Gen Joseph W. Stillwell, Vice Adm S.H.P. Blandy. Good (Basic: Orig neg at NARA)
This clip contains every one of the 77 reels at the National Archives comprising of 7 hours and 12 minutes under the control number 342-USAF-34282A. These are the 35-mm black and white reels shot during Operation Crossroads Able.
NOTE: I do not have this material in any higher resolution than this, i.e. no HD, no 2K. And the National Archives is closed due to Covid-19 so its impossible at the moment to obtain higher resolution copies from NARA either.
342-USAF-34282A
Summary: Film coverage of Project Crossroads, a project of the two atomic bomb tests in the Pacific in l946 and including Able Day test of an atomic bomb drop from a B-29 on 1 July 1946, and Baker Day test, the underwater detonation of an atomic bomb on 25 July 1946. Included are B-29 operators, damage to the target fleet, and personalities including Maj Gen Curtis LeMay, Gen Joseph W. Stillwell, Vice Adm S.H.P. Blandy. Good (Basic: Orig neg at NARA)
