Operation Crossroads Aka Us Troops On Pacific Island (1946)

Unissued / Unused Material - Aerial view of ships in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Sea level shots of ships, LST’s and destroyers at anchor. VS of planes and bulldozers lashed to decks of ships. Taxiing past camera - CU of nose of American B29 Flying Fortress bomber - ’Enola Gay’ - the plane which dropped the Atom Bomb. Colonel Paul Tibbets is shown standing by the plane - he will pilot the B-29 on this mission to test a nuclear bomb on Bikini Atoll. Aerial views of Bikini Atoll. VS of steel towers being erected on Atoll. These towers will hold cameras and recording equipment during nuclear test - code named Operation Crossroads. LS Ships off Bikini Atoll. Paperwork suggests date around March 1946. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters histor