Eight photographers man their cameras in a demonstration of how they will work when the Joint Army-Navy Task Force conducts the atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll this summer
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Eight photographers man their cameras in a demonstration of how they will work when the Joint Army-Navy Task Force conducts the atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll this summer

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Eight photographers man their cameras in a demonstration of how they will work when the Joint Army-Navy Task Force conducts the atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll this summer

April 10, 1946
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 13/16 × 9 9/16 in. (19.8 × 24.3 cm)
Paper: 8 3/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.8 × 25.3 cm)
Museum accession
2007.0051.0002
Inscriptions inscribed in image on recto, BL: CR-476-10
inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: X(?)S 32-1 [sideways]
printed in blue ink on verso, BC: FILE NUMBER: CR-476-10 / RELEASED: \ HOLD FOR RELEASE: \ 6 PM (EST) \ April 10, 1946 \ ATOMIC BOMB PHOTO PLANE, ROSWELL ARMY AIR FIELD, New Mexico -- \ Eight (8) photographers man their cameras in a demonstration of \ how they will work when the Joint Army-Navy Task Force conducts \ the atom bomb tests at Bikini Atoll this summer. In two converted \ C-54 aircrafts, groups of photographers such as these men will \ operate 21 cameras of seven (7) different types. JOINT ARMY AND \ NAVY TASK FORCE ONE PHOTO. [upside down]
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