diff --git a/crates/kernel/src/boolean_history_tests.rs b/crates/kernel/src/boolean_history_tests.rs
index 13dd0b39..900fe78c 100644
--- a/crates/kernel/src/boolean_history_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/kernel/src/boolean_history_tests.rs
@@ -484,3 +484,20 @@ fn bore_union_of_a_bore_in_two_arcs_has_no_history() {
     let r = crate::coplanar::bore_union(&floor, &ring, &|_| true).expect("the bores are recut");
     assert!(r.history().is_none());
 }
+
+/// Bodies clearly apart, joined as one body of several pieces (`union_apart`): every face and
+/// edge is its piece's own, kept.
+#[test]
+fn bodies_apart_joined_keep_their_faces() {
+    let pieces = [boxed(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0), boxed(5.0, 0.0, 0.0, 7.0, 2.0, 2.0), boxed(10.0, 0.0, 0.0, 12.0, 2.0, 2.0)];
+    let r = crate::union_apart(&pieces).unwrap().unwrap();
+    let operands: Vec<&Body> = pieces.iter().collect();
+    let h = verified(&r, &operands, 0.01);
+    assert_eq!(h.operands, 3);
+    for (k, piece) in pieces.iter().enumerate() {
+        for f in 0..piece.face_count() {
+            assert_eq!(from(h, face(k, f)).len(), 1, "{}", show(h));
+        }
+    }
+    assert!(faces_of(h).iter().all(|(change, origins)| *change == Change::Kept && origins.len() == 1), "{}", show(h));
+}
diff --git a/crates/kernel/src/ops.rs b/crates/kernel/src/ops.rs
index 3355ba4d..e5027cd4 100644
--- a/crates/kernel/src/ops.rs
+++ b/crates/kernel/src/ops.rs
@@ -672,7 +672,22 @@ pub fn union_apart(bodies: &[Body]) -> Result<Option<Body>> {
             }
         }
     }
-    join_pieces(bodies.to_vec())
+    // The pieces stay as they are, side by side: each face and edge of the result is its piece's
+    // own (the history over `bodies`).
+    let Some(joined) = join_pieces(bodies.to_vec())? else { return Ok(None) };
+    let operands: Vec<&Body> = bodies.iter().collect();
+    let faces = bodies
+        .iter()
+        .enumerate()
+        .flat_map(|(operand, b)| {
+            (0..b.face_count()).map(move |face| (std::collections::BTreeSet::from([crate::history::FaceOrigin::Face { operand, face }]), true))
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let mut edges = HashMap::new();
+    for (operand, b) in bodies.iter().enumerate() {
+        edges.extend(record::edge_origins(&b.solid, operand));
+    }
+    Ok(Some(record::traced(joined, &record::counts(&operands), Some(record::regions(faces)), Some(&edges))))
 }
 
 /// Bodies (apart from each other) as one body of several pieces.