Balloon barrage training center. Aerial octopus. This strange looking creature is a tail view of one of the barrage balloons prompting the above title. The lower fin is filled with gas last as it is slowly raised from the ground. Camp Tyson, Tennessee [graphic].
United States. Office of War Information.
still image
Nitrate negatives. gmgpc
[between 1940 and 1946]
eng
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Title and other information from caption card.
United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division;
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at
United States Camp Tyson.
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b09860