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Title: "Operation Alert", 1957
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated July 12, 1957 reads, "Release Balloon To Check Mock A-Bomb Fallout Here - Roy Bastian of the Weather Bureau and Cpl. Jack Gallagher and Pvt. Jon Dolence Send Up Instruments to Check Wind Drift In 'Operation Alert'".
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093253
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 48
CARL0005009184
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28665
Subject: Special operations (Military science)--California--Los Angeles
Atomic bomb--California--Los Angeles
Balloon decorations--California--Los Angeles
Raids (Military science)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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