Army Air Force Technicians at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico check ultra-high speed motion picture cameras mounted in lower aft turret of the F-13 camera aircraft
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Army Air Force Technicians at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico check ultra-high speed motion picture cameras mounted in lower aft turret of the F-13 camera aircraft
March 19, 1946
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.6 × 24.5 cm)
Paper: 8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.5 × 25.2 cm)
Museum accession
2007.0051.0001
Inscriptions printed in image on recto, TRC: [cut off]AVEAR-452
inscribed in image on recto, BL: 476-9
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: X5-32
printed in blue ink on verso, BC: FILE NUMBER: CR-476-9 / RELEASED: 19 March 1946 \ ARMY AND NAVY PHOTO COVERAGE TO COMPLETELY BLANKET ATOM BOMB TESTS -- \ From land and carrier bases, Operations Crossroads Army and Navy planes \ will combine to record for science and history the effect of an atomic \ explosion against naval targets, in the forthcoming Joint Army and \ Navy Task Force One peacetime tests in the Bikini Atoll group of the \ Marshall Islands. At Roswell, New Mexico, B-29 and F-13 camera planes \ and B-17 drones have completed final rehearsals within the United States, \ and units of the famed 58th Bombardment Wing are enroute to Pacific \ bases to be used in the tests. At Norfolk, Virginia, the USS SHANGRI-LA, \ Exxex[sic]-class carrier, takes aboard F6F "drone" and control planes to be \ flown from its deck to participate in the tests. Below decks, photo- \ graphic and scientific equipment has been stored. \ F-13 CAMERA PLANES ARE REMOTELY CONTROLLED -- Army Air Force technicians, \ at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico, check ultra high speed motion \ picture cameras mounted in lower aft turret, of the F-13 camera aircraft. \ Cameras are to be remotely controlled by a photographer located in center \ of ship. These specifically designed motion picture cameras start \ operating at a speed of 4,000 picture frames per second and accelerate \ to 8,000 frames per second. Nine other similarly equipped F-13 aircraft \ will circle the atomic bomb explosion of the Joint Army-Navy experiments \ and record the results on 28 different cameras. JOINT ARMY-NAVY \ TASK FORCE ONE PHOTOGRAPH. [upside down]
inscribed in image on recto, BL: 476-9
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: X5-32
printed in blue ink on verso, BC: FILE NUMBER: CR-476-9 / RELEASED: 19 March 1946 \ ARMY AND NAVY PHOTO COVERAGE TO COMPLETELY BLANKET ATOM BOMB TESTS -- \ From land and carrier bases, Operations Crossroads Army and Navy planes \ will combine to record for science and history the effect of an atomic \ explosion against naval targets, in the forthcoming Joint Army and \ Navy Task Force One peacetime tests in the Bikini Atoll group of the \ Marshall Islands. At Roswell, New Mexico, B-29 and F-13 camera planes \ and B-17 drones have completed final rehearsals within the United States, \ and units of the famed 58th Bombardment Wing are enroute to Pacific \ bases to be used in the tests. At Norfolk, Virginia, the USS SHANGRI-LA, \ Exxex[sic]-class carrier, takes aboard F6F "drone" and control planes to be \ flown from its deck to participate in the tests. Below decks, photo- \ graphic and scientific equipment has been stored. \ F-13 CAMERA PLANES ARE REMOTELY CONTROLLED -- Army Air Force technicians, \ at Roswell Army Air Field, New Mexico, check ultra high speed motion \ picture cameras mounted in lower aft turret, of the F-13 camera aircraft. \ Cameras are to be remotely controlled by a photographer located in center \ of ship. These specifically designed motion picture cameras start \ operating at a speed of 4,000 picture frames per second and accelerate \ to 8,000 frames per second. Nine other similarly equipped F-13 aircraft \ will circle the atomic bomb explosion of the Joint Army-Navy experiments \ and record the results on 28 different cameras. JOINT ARMY-NAVY \ TASK FORCE ONE PHOTOGRAPH. [upside down]
