Operation Crossroads
still image
graphic
Photographic prints-1940-1950.
Photographic prints-Color-1940-1950.
Photograph albums-1940-1950.
1946
1946
monographic
1946
eng
1 album (179 b&w, 2 color photographic prints) ; 36 cm.
Photographs show activities of Task Unit 1.52, the Air Photo Unit of the 58th Wing of the Army Air Forces, based on Kwajalein, to record atomic bomb tests at Bikini lagoons in the Marshall Islands.
Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions ...,"
LOT title from album.
Base location of the 58th Wing and location of bomb test site provided by researcher (Army Staff Archaelogist) in 2007.
"This is the story of the men, military and civilian, charged with the responsibility of obtaining photographic records of atomic energy's destructiveness, its potentialities and possible defense against it ..."
One of the color photographs is duplicate.
Official USAAS photographs, with captions.
This record contains unverified, old data from shelflist card, with subsequent revisions.
Transfer; Manuscript Division; 1965.
Forms part of the Ira Eaker papers (Manuscript Division).
United States.
Army Air Forces
1940-1950
Atomic bombs
1940-1950
Nuclear weapons testing
American
1940-1950
Photography
1940-1950
Kwajalein Atoll (Marshall Islands)
1940-1950
Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
1940-1950
LOT 10409
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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