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Title
Control map center of operations
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated July 14, 1956 reads "Sailor plots location of unidentified aircraft on lighted control map in Combat Information Center deep in hold of ship as other men relay information as they carefully study phantasmagoria of light blips on radar screen. Aircraft's speed, location and path is charted." The article partially reads "Working closely with the Lockheed Constellations flying radar patrol duty in the Pacific to extend the nation's defense against sneak aerial attack are the ships of CONAD, a joint Army-Navy-Air Force command established by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1954." The men are on the picket ship U.S.S. Scanner, moored at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. CONAD, the Continental Air Defense Command, operated from 1954-1975.; See images #00143348 through #00143351 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00143350
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f18_i32
CARL0005792170
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71770
Subject
United States.--Department of Defense
Men--California--San Francisco
Ships--California--San Francisco
Radar defense networks--United States
Radar--Military applications
Radar indicators
Tracking radar
Maps
Treasure Island (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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