Test Living Continues in Fallout Shelter Under Summer Conditions, Bethesda, Maryland

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES R THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON 25, D.C. - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E791 - EXTENSION 75111 13rd (A) Release No. 168-62 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 100 FINE GRAIN TO; 13 August 1962 TEST LIVING CONTINUES IN FALLOUT SHELTER UNDER SUMMER CONDITIONS (Official Havy footage released by Department of Defense0 The routine's the same, the food's unchanged, and the heat continues under summer conditions. The two officers and 98 enlisted men are scheduled as the 100 Navy volunteers continue to test living in a fallout shelter to leave the 25 X 48 foot Bethesda, Maryland, shelter at poon on 25 August, ending a 14 day test. Throughout the test, shelterees are served two meals each day - one hot and one cold. The hot meal features one of several kinds of soup together with enriched wheat wafers, peanut butter or jam, and instant coffee or tes. No soup is served during the cold real and the man are restricted to three cups of coffee per day but may drink as much water as they desire. One day's diet totals 2,000 calories. Shelter commender for the test is Lieutenant junior grade John T. White, of the Navy's Civil Engineering Corps. Shelter Medical Officer is Captain David Hindard, Medical Corps, USN. NOTE TO EDITORS: 100 B/W fine grain handed out to NBC-TV, Washington, for servicing both IV and thestrical pool members. Fine grain to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1g New York, within 72 hours. NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dup e negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered` to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. E10575

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Filmed News Releases