Baptism At Sea - Just Before Iwo Jima
Image Not Available
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Baptism At Sea - Just Before Iwo Jima
February 1945
Gelatin silver print
19.3 x 24.0 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "4093" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"Baptism At Sea - Just Before Iwo Jima" "Standing in salt water just
inside the huge bow doors of a Coast Guard-manned LST under way in the
Pacific, Coast Guardsman Lawrence R. Turnquist, Seaman Second Class,
of Chicago, Illinois, is baptized by Army Chaplain James R. Coffee, of
Ault, Colorado. This unusual photograph was made by a Coast Guard
Combat Photographer just before the vessel hit the beaches of Iwo..."
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"Baptism At Sea - Just Before Iwo Jima" "Standing in salt water just
inside the huge bow doors of a Coast Guard-manned LST under way in the
Pacific, Coast Guardsman Lawrence R. Turnquist, Seaman Second Class,
of Chicago, Illinois, is baptized by Army Chaplain James R. Coffee, of
Ault, Colorado. This unusual photograph was made by a Coast Guard
Combat Photographer just before the vessel hit the beaches of Iwo..."
