Pumpkin Practice

Name: Pumpkin Practice
Uploaded: 2021-12-08
Duration: 153738
Description: In 1945, dummy bombs called "Pumpkins" were released during top-secret tests over the southwestern United States as practice for dropping the first atomic bombs. This rare color footage (the narration has been added) shows a B-29 crew releasing bombs over a bullseye plowed into the arid desert floor at a remote field near the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico.

In 1945, dummy bombs called "Pumpkins" were released during top-secret tests over the southwestern United States as practice for dropping the first atomic bombs. This rare color footage (the narration has been added) shows a B-29 crew releasing bombs over a bullseye plowed into the arid desert floor at a remote field near the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. (02:33)