Soldiers aim anti-aircraft gun at Douglas plane during a military show for National Defense Week, Los Angeles, 1940

Title: Soldiers aim anti-aircraft gun at Douglas plane during a military show for National Defense Week, Los Angeles, 1940
Date Created: February 11, 1940
Date: 1940-02-11
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Soldiers aim anti-aircraft gun at Douglas plane during a military show for National Defense Week. The show was held at the Los Angeles Airport and more than 60 officers and men participated.
Caption: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 3 inch anti-aircraft gun Douglas 038 model plane.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: US Army - Defense Week Maneuvers at Mines Field (2-11-40); Holden, F.H. -Lt.Col.; Smith, Lynn Davis -Capt.; Flag - 160th Infantry; Jorgensen, Arthur N. -160th Inf. Co.F on watch for air raids at rest time; Standard Machine Gun; Douglas 038 model plane; Co. F and M - 160th Infantry; Dress-old squad; new streamlined squad; Smoke screens.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: United States. Army
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
War
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027znm1
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