Military personnel putting on diving suits during the Army-Navy maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California in late 1946

Title: Military personnel putting on diving suits during the Army-Navy maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California in late 1946
Date Created: November and December 1946
Date: 1946-11/1946-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Military personnel putting on diving suits during the Army-Navy Maneuvers that took place off the coast of Southern California at the end of 1946. The goal of the war games was to practice two maneuvers: Operation Mountain Goat, an amphibious landing designed to dislodge "enemy" troops, and Operation Oilskin, a landing to cut off "enemy" communications. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps aircrafts participated in the exercise.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: US Army-Navy Maneuvers off the coast of southern California

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: United States. Navy
United States. Army
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles
Military maneuvers--California--Los Angeles
Diving suits

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz00280pv0
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