Tank Altar - Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, uses a destroyed Japanese tank for an altar as he holds services for the dead. Casualties in this campaign w re triple those of the battle of Tarawa.
Photograph
Tank Altar - Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann, of Omaha, Neb., attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, uses a destroyed Japanese tank for an altar as he holds services for the dead. Casualties in this campaign w re triple those of the battle of Tarawa.
July 1944
Gelatin silver print
19.6 x 24.4 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0011
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "Tank Altar - Navy Chaplain O. David Herrmann,
of Omaha, Neb., attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, uses a destroyed
Japanese tank for an altar as he holds services for the dead.
Casualties in this campaign were triple those of the battle of
Tarawa." "Hdqrs. No. 83,290" "Sist List 2-4" "7-744" "Watch Your
Credit Line Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo By Sgt. Ferman H.
Dixon."
of Omaha, Neb., attached to a Marine unit on Saipan, uses a destroyed
Japanese tank for an altar as he holds services for the dead.
Casualties in this campaign were triple those of the battle of
Tarawa." "Hdqrs. No. 83,290" "Sist List 2-4" "7-744" "Watch Your
Credit Line Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo By Sgt. Ferman H.
Dixon."
