Surrender of the Enemy
Photograph
Surrender of the Enemy
April 1945
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 19.5 x 23.9 cm (7 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0422
Inscriptions recto (printed logo): USMC
verso (printed): SURRENDER OF THE ENEMY-------Under the white flag
of surrender,/ Japanese Naval troops gather about a Marine to deliver
themselves/ into the hands of the Americans on Okinawa as enemy
resistance/ collapses. The one in the background approaches with hands/ held well aloft. He wants no mistaken move on his part to bring/ a bullet his way./
Hdqtrs. No. 126,266. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Corporal John Curran/
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
verso (printed): SURRENDER OF THE ENEMY-------Under the white flag
of surrender,/ Japanese Naval troops gather about a Marine to deliver
themselves/ into the hands of the Americans on Okinawa as enemy
resistance/ collapses. The one in the background approaches with hands/ held well aloft. He wants no mistaken move on his part to bring/ a bullet his way./
Hdqtrs. No. 126,266. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Corporal John Curran/
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
