Tarawa - Marines charging in on Tarawa against enemy crossfire that swept the palms like a tropical hurricane. The Leathernecks advanced until four thousand of Tojo's toughest fighters were wiped out.
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Tarawa - Marines charging in on Tarawa against enemy crossfire that swept the palms like a tropical hurricane. The Leathernecks advanced until four thousand of Tojo's toughest fighters were wiped out.
November 1943
Gelatin silver print
19.5 x 24.2 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "File No: MHQ 63461" "Tarawa - Marines
charging in on Tarawa against enemy crossfire that swept the palms
like a tropical hurricane. The Leathernecks advanced until four
thousand of Tojo's toughest fighters were wiped out." "(This is print
No. 99 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York City." "Watch Your Credit" "'Official U.S.
Navy Photograph'" "The Navy Department has no objection to the use of
this photograph in commercial advertisements provided copy and ..."
charging in on Tarawa against enemy crossfire that swept the palms
like a tropical hurricane. The Leathernecks advanced until four
thousand of Tojo's toughest fighters were wiped out." "(This is print
No. 99 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York City." "Watch Your Credit" "'Official U.S.
Navy Photograph'" "The Navy Department has no objection to the use of
this photograph in commercial advertisements provided copy and ..."
