0800032 – US Army Presents MF20 9811, Ivy Flats Film Report – 1962 – 17:35 – Black&White – Ivy Flats, a 1962 tactical military exercise at the Nevada Test Site, involved the detonation of live nuclear rounds fired from the Davy Crockett artillery piece. The Davy Crockett was developed to give US Army units an effective nuclear capability against potentially larger units of Soviet armored forces. The Davy Crockett, a recoilless launcher, was the third artillery piece deployed, those earlier being a l55 mm piece designed to fire a nuclear round and a 288 mm mobile piece, commonly called an “atomic cannon.” Nuclear-capable ground artillery pieces were gradually replaced by increasingly accurate, nuclear carrying missiles and aircraft. The Ivy Flats video shows an Army exercise that was observed by visiting dignitaries, including US Attorney General Robert Kennedy and General Maxwell Taylor, a Presidential military adviser. Participating in the exercise were members of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division from Ft. Lewis, Washington. Ivy Flats was a “battle” between a large simulated enemy armored force and a smaller US force consisting of conventional artillery pieces, which could not stop the pending onslaught. US Army squads then arrive in armored personnel carriers and set up the heavy (l55 mm) and light (120 mm) versions of recoilless launchers. The Davy Crockett fired a nuclear round that decimated the mock opposing force. The Davy Crockett was deployed from 1961 to 1971 …