Video of my dad telling of being at the A-bomb tests in the 50's

[815C]

My brother shot this video when my dad, who passed in 2017, told us about being at the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950's.

Crouching in trenches 1,700 meters from blast, flying his plane thru radiation for hours, etc.

It's on Vimeo, not YouTube --> https://vimeo.com/737973208/181e1b95fb

What an experience.

[srick]

Wow - thank you for sharing that. He must have been a great Dad.

Rick

[jnidoh]

815,

It's great that your brother took the video so that your children and theirs will always have a record of what he, and others like him, went thru, so many years ago. Hopefully, it'll never happen again.

Thanks for posting.

john

[fitness1]

Absolutely incredible historical account - and how cool to have such a good video of your Dad.

[H165]

Good posting. It humanizes the mystery and secrecy the military tried to maintain around atomic testing and weaponry.

[Bob from Brooklyn]

I had a Aunt who worked on the Manhattan Project although she didn't know it for years.

[difalkner]

Great story and well told, good video - lots of memories in that. Glad y'all have that for generations to come.

[buddyhu]

Wow…quite interesting!

[TomB'sox]

What a great man and with a wonderful sense of humor at the end. Heros.

[Gitfiddlemann]

That was amazing, and sobering all at once. It’s not often you hear someone from the Greatest Generation narrate a momentous time in history in such laid back fashion. No surprise. There’s not a whole lot that could faze those guys after what they had to deal with.
Thanks for sharing this info about your dad.

[MikeB1]

Originally Posted by AndreF

It’s not often you hear someone from the Greatest Generation narrate a momentous time in history in such laid back fashion. No surprise. There’s not a whole lot that could faze those guys after what they had to deal with.

Well said Andre, I totally agree. My experience with these members of the Greatest Generation has been exactly the same. I think the fact that they are so casual about what they did is one of the characteristics that makes them so remarkable.

I had the privilege to speak periodically with someone who as a teenager, was assigned to a minesweeper in the Pacific, during World Wart II. He would come to the office where I worked and pick up his wife every day. I would always tell him; "You guys saved the world." He would just smile and shrug his shoulders. He would often say: "We just did what we had to do."

No surprise, the reactions of these hero's.

[roberts]

Wow, your Dad! What a seemingly wonderful guy and a GREAT storyteller. How old was he in this video...? It was like listening to poetry. Thanks for sharing this....Robert

[cliff_the_stiff]

Originally Posted by AndreF

That was amazing, and sobering all at once. It’s not often you hear someone from the Greatest Generation narrate a momentous time in history in such laid back fashion. No surprise. There’s not a whole lot that could faze those guys after what they had to deal with.
Thanks for sharing this info about your dad.

Yeah! “I remember thinking I should have chosen a different line of work”
I really appreciate you having shared this

[815C]

Thanks guys! My dad would have smiled to read these comments.