Gelatin silver print entitled 'It Flies Through The Air With The Greatest of Heat', taken by an unknown photographer for Joint Army-Navy Task Force One, 1 July 1946. 'The atom bomb burst, in its test of the fleet. Looking for all the world like a giant cauliflower head suspended to an over-stretching neck, Bikini's billowing cloud of smoke and cloud was caught in its various stages of formation by a Navy patrol bomber flying just beyond range of the deadly explosion...'
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Daily Herald Archive
- Object Number:
- 1983-5236/14418
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- type:
- photograph and gelatin silver print
