Waiting (Captain Stuart H. Ingersoll and Lt. Comdr. Roger William Mehlo)
Photograph
Waiting (Captain Stuart H. Ingersoll and Lt. Comdr. Roger William Mehlo)
June 1944
Gelatin silver print
19.4 x 19.5 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0161
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "File No: TR-10988" "Waiting - Captain Stuart
H. Ingersoll (left) skipper of a carrier in Task Force 58, waiting in
the pilots' ready room for the first word to come over the inter-plane
system of his bomber pilots at this moment heading for Tinian on D-
Minus-4-Day, June 11, 1944. At his left is Lt. Comdr. Roger William
Mehlo, fighter and group commander, who has just finished reporting to
his skipper the results of the strike he led a few hours before in
which nine twin-engined Jap bombers were destroyed..."
H. Ingersoll (left) skipper of a carrier in Task Force 58, waiting in
the pilots' ready room for the first word to come over the inter-plane
system of his bomber pilots at this moment heading for Tinian on D-
Minus-4-Day, June 11, 1944. At his left is Lt. Comdr. Roger William
Mehlo, fighter and group commander, who has just finished reporting to
his skipper the results of the strike he led a few hours before in
which nine twin-engined Jap bombers were destroyed..."
