Rocket Burst, Peleliu - One of the Pacific Fleet's landing craft launches an attack against the beaches of Peleliu in the Palau group on D-Day, September 15, 1944, preceding landings by troops of the 1st e Division.

Rocket Burst, Peleliu - One of the Pacific Fleet's landing craft launches an attack against the beaches of Peleliu in the Palau group on D-Day, September 15, 1944, preceding landings by troops of the 1st e Division.

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U.S. Navy

Unidentified

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Rocket Burst, Peleliu - One of the Pacific Fleet's landing craft launches an attack against the beaches of Peleliu in the Palau group on D-Day, September 15, 1944, preceding landings by troops of the 1st e Division.

September 1944
Gelatin silver print
27.1 x 34.4 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0750
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "59500" "Set # 11"
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