Ancient and Honourable Society of H-Bomb Observers.

Ancient and Honourable Society of H-Bomb Observers.

Eniwetok Proving Ground Local No. 1. Headquarters USS Mount McKinley AGC-7.

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).

1956

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

eng

1069