You're A Grand Old Flag 1917

This Grand Old Flag, has used Americans as guinea pigs in hundreds of experiments over the years. This film shows US Marines being exposed to nuclear radiation.
During many of those tests, soldiers who thought of themselves as ‘ground grunts’ and were sworn to secrecy, witnessed the atomic explosions first-hand, and from close range.
In Operation Desert Rock, the military conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1957, exposing thousands of participants – both military and civilian – to high levels of radiation.
In total, more nearly 400,000 American soldiers and civilians would be classified as ‘atomic veterans.
Soldiers and civilians were exposed to high levels of radiation, and suffered from radiation sickness, nausea, and cancers. Many of their children were born with deformities.

Grand Old Flag by the American Quartet Recorded on June 4, 1917 and found on Victor record #18358