Holed Up
Photograph
Holed Up
June–July 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0010
Inscriptions in negative on verso BR: USMC and emblem
printed in ink on verso: HOLED UP----A Member of a Marine patrol on Saipan, found this/
family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four/ childran [sic] and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in/ that area. All civilian prisoners, consisting of Japanese,/
Koreans, and Chamorros, were removed to the safety of the/ beach area.
Hdqtrs. No. 83,266. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
By Corporal Angus Robertson
printed in ink on verso: HOLED UP----A Member of a Marine patrol on Saipan, found this/
family of Japs hiding in a hillside cave. The mother, four/ childran [sic] and a dog, took shelter from the fierce fighting in/ that area. All civilian prisoners, consisting of Japanese,/
Koreans, and Chamorros, were removed to the safety of the/ beach area.
Hdqtrs. No. 83,266. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
By Corporal Angus Robertson
