Names: United States. Navy / Subject: Explosions--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Cloud from a TNT explostion over the water 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.
Date:: November and December 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: U.S. Navy Tugboat 539 fighting fires in L.A. Harbor that began when the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in the wee hours of the morning. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives