Tarawa
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Tarawa
November 1943
Gelatin silver print
19.5 x 24.2 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0231
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "File No: MHQ 63457" "Tarawa - U.S. Marines
storming Betio's airport in the attack on Tarawa as they go over the
top of a coconut log retaining wall, crouching low and firing until it
is their turn to go through. This photograph was taken from the
water's edge and gives some idea of the small strip of beach - only
twenty feet wide at this point where the Marines operated the first
day." "(U.S. Marine Corps photo.)" "(This is print No. 97 in the U.S.
Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of Modern Art..."
storming Betio's airport in the attack on Tarawa as they go over the
top of a coconut log retaining wall, crouching low and firing until it
is their turn to go through. This photograph was taken from the
water's edge and gives some idea of the small strip of beach - only
twenty feet wide at this point where the Marines operated the first
day." "(U.S. Marine Corps photo.)" "(This is print No. 97 in the U.S.
Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of Modern Art..."
