Provenance

Tribune Company, Chicago; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 825; on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied green sticker: 85; by unknown hand, center left illegible printing notes in graphite perpendicular; center left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: TRIBUN[E]; center left printed in black ink on applied newspaper inverted: The bomb will be triggered to go off some two miles / above the sandy island of Namu in the Bikini atoll, / which has been marked as a target by a giant painted / bull's-eye (photo at left). / The blast, originally scheduled for Tuesday, has been / postponed twice because of bad weather conditions and / now is to be staged Thursday (Wednesday afternoon, / Minneapolis time). / The crewmen are, left to right, Maj. David M Critch- / low, Sacramento, Calif., aircraft commander; Maj. Charles / T. Smith, Pittsburg, Kan., pilot; Maj. Dwight Durner, / Charlotte, Mich., bombardier who will trigger bomb; Maj. / Floyd A. Amundsen [sic], Grand Forks, N. D., navigator; Lt. / William R. Payne, Plainview, Texas, timer; Sgt. Richard / Bingham, Pearsburg [sic], Va., radar mechanic, and Col. Paul / R. Wignall, Port Arthur, Texas, official observer and / deputy commander of the task group.; center left stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: T MAY 8 1956 2; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; center right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING / 1956 MAY 7 PM 5:30; by unknown hand, bottom left in pink ink inverted: Hydrogen Bomb - test / May 10 - 1956