Keywords: Lot 11532-3: Operation Sandstone, November 1947-June 1948. Dining Halls. The task of feeding all the men on the islands was no small one. Dining halls to serve as many as 200 men received construction priority and were soon in full-scale operation. Through-out the operation, the quality and standards of the various dining halls did much toward maintaining a high level of morale. Photographs show preparation for the atomic bomb tests at Enewetok Atoll (Marshall Islands), the actual blasts and the visible effects. Military construction, photography, meteorology, radiology, and communications; aircraft; daily life; Navy, Air Force, and civilian staff portraits; first successful color photograph made by atomic bomb flash, showing Navy spectators. U.S. Air Force Joint Task Force Seven. Images photographed through Mylar sleeves. (7/2/2015). Lot 11532-3: Operation Sandstone, November 1947-June 1948. Dining Halls. The task of feeding all the men on the islands was no small one. Dining halls to serve as many as 200 men received construction priority and were soon in full-scale operation. Through-out the operation, the quality and standards of the various dining halls did much toward maintaining a high level of morale. Photographs show preparation for the atomic bomb tests at Enewetok Atoll (Marshall Islands), the actual blasts and the visible effects. Military construction, photography, meteorology, radiology, and communications; aircraft; daily life; Navy, Air Force, and civilian staff portraits; first successful color photograph made by atomic bomb flash, showing Navy spectators. U.S. Air Force Joint Task Force Seven. Images photographed through Mylar sleeves. (7/2/2015). |