Final Barrage Against Manila
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Final Barrage Against Manila
February 23, 1945
Gelatin silver print
30.9 x 26.8 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0625
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "Buaer-273383" Final Barrage Against Manila - The final barrage against Manila, February 23, 1945, paved the way for liberation of the capital of the Philippines. A heavy column and pall of smoke from fires set by shells iterate most of the city, while in contrast, briliant sunlight...
