Death in the Morning - The rising sun reveals the bodies of Japanese jungle fighters, half buried in the tidal sands of the Tenara River where they fell in their vicious night attempt to dislodge the U.S. es from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
Photograph
Death in the Morning - The rising sun reveals the bodies of Japanese jungle fighters, half buried in the tidal sands of the Tenara River where they fell in their vicious night attempt to dislodge the U.S. es from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
August 1942
Gelatin silver print
19.4 x 23.9 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0444
Inscriptions verso-(printed caption) "Death In The Morning - The rising sun reveals
the bodies of Japanese jungle fighters, half buried in the tidal sands
of the Tenaru River where they fell in their vicious night attempt to
dislodge the U.S. Marines from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands."
"Hdqtrs. No. 50,963." "Dist List Stock" "5-1044" "Watch Your Credit
Line" Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo" (in ink) "By S/Sgt Earl K.
Swenson"
recto-(in image) "USMC" (logo)
the bodies of Japanese jungle fighters, half buried in the tidal sands
of the Tenaru River where they fell in their vicious night attempt to
dislodge the U.S. Marines from Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands."
"Hdqtrs. No. 50,963." "Dist List Stock" "5-1044" "Watch Your Credit
Line" Official U.S. Marine Corps Photo" (in ink) "By S/Sgt Earl K.
Swenson"
recto-(in image) "USMC" (logo)
