U.S. Army Report on Atomic Bombing of Japan "The Atom Strikes" 25042 (1945)

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Produced in 1945, "The Atom Strikes" was created by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Pictoral Division shortly after the end of the Second World War. It documents the findings of a commission sent to Japan to assess the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The film opens with footage of the blast of the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico in July 1945. The film then focuses on the flight of the B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" and its mission over the Japanese city of…

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30 minutes

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