Keywords: outdoor 80-G-706912: The 1949 Caribbean Maneuvers on Vieques Island, D-minus-One-Day. Fighter planes lay smoke screen over Blue Beach prior to landing of troops. The smoke screen was to harass the “enemy troops” so that they would be unable to see the landing craft as they approached the beach, March 2, 1949. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/14). 80-G-706912: The 1949 Caribbean Maneuvers on Vieques Island, D-minus-One-Day. Fighter planes lay smoke screen over Blue Beach prior to landing of troops. The smoke screen was to harass the “enemy troops” so that they would be unable to see the landing craft as they approached the beach, March 2, 1949. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/06/14). |