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Ancient and Honourable Society of H-Bomb Observers.

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Title

Ancient and Honourable Society of H-Bomb Observers.
Eniwetok Proving Ground Local No. 1. Headquarters USS Mount McKinley AGC-7.

Description

Printed pictorial card, certifying that "Charter Heslep Shook, Rattled and Rolled," and signed by William L. Laurence, President, and Henry A. Renken, "Chairman of the Horde by Order of Neptunus Rex."
A humorous membership card, issued to observers of Operation Redwing, the first U.S. airdrop of a fully-armed and fuzed thermonuclear gravity bomb (the Cherokee detonation).

Date

1956

Format

Pictorial card, 2-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches, printed in black on a yellow and orange background of a mushroom cloud.

Language

eng

Identifier

1069

Citation

“Ancient and Honourable Society of H-Bomb Observers.,” Special Collections & Archives Research Center, accessed November 22, 2024, http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/omeka-2.0.4/items/show/1056.