Japanese "Jill" Attacks Carrier

Japanese "Jill" Attacks Carrier

Photograph

Japanese "Jill" Attacks Carrier

ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0001
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso LC: Bu Aer 23103

printed in ink on verso: File No. BuAer 231203/

JAP "JILL" ATTACKS CARRIER - Jap torpedo bomber "Jill" flying though hail of AA fire toward/ a U.S. carrier to attack, during the raid on Truk, Caroline Islands./

(This is Print no. 65 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of/ Modern Art, New York City.)/

WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/

The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commercial/ advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to/ publication to the REVIEW SECTION, OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT,/ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./

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