Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Military personnel practicing maneuvers 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. Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [8?] Swimmers [???] Text from original nitrate sleeve: US Army-Navy Maneuvers off the coast of southern California
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b&w nitrate negative
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ark:/21198/zz00280p44
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Beaches--California--Los Angeles Education Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles Environment War Military maneuvers--California--Los Angeles United States. Navy United States. Army
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