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Sailor holding a rope during the Army-Navy maneuvers off the coast of Southern California in late 1946

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Title: Sailor holding a rope during the Army-Navy maneuvers off the coast of Southern California in late 1946
Date Created and/or Issued: November and December 1946
1946-11/1946-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Sailor holding a piece of rope over the side of a boat 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.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: US Army-Navy Maneuvers off the coast of southern California
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00280prf
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles
War
Military maneuvers--California--Los Angeles
Ropes
United States. Navy
United States. Army
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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