Soldiers Watching Mushroom Cloud Of Atomic Bomb Test - 1951
by War Is Hell Store
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Soldiers Watching Mushroom Cloud Of Atomic Bomb Test - 1951
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War Is Hell Store
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Photograph - Print
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This mid 20th century Military History photo features members of 11th AB Division kneeling on the ground as they watch a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb test conducted at Frenchman Flat, Nevada. A hydrographic basin in the Nevada National Security Site south of Yucca Flat and north of Mercury, the flat was used as an American nuclear test site for conducting the 1951 Operation Ranger "Able" test, which was the first continental US nuclear detonation after the 1945 Trinity test, and has a 5.8 sq mi dry lake bed known as Frenchman Lake that was used as a 1950s airstrip before it was chosen for the Nevada Proving Grounds after the start of the Korean War. Photo taken in November, 1951.
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