Silent Admiration
Photograph
Silent Admiration
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0014
Inscriptions in negative on recto BR: USMC and emblem
in ink on verso: SILENT ADMIRATION-- The Marines brought more than the American arms/ to Tarawa, they brought the liberties for which the flag has always/ flown. With the Marines sweep through the pacific, Christianity/ also returned to the natives many of whom were deprived of the practice/ of their faith under the Japanese. The cost of this rebirth in the/ islands was Marine dead. Here, Sister Raphael of the Order of the/ Sacred Heart pays tribute as she prays for the most honored of soldiers,/ the unknown man who falls in battle for his country. An Australian,/ Sister Raphael has been stationed in Tarawa, Apiang, and Apamara./
Hdqtrs. No. 99, 577. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
inscribed in ink on verso C: By W.O. RAY CHAPEL/
in ink on verso: SILENT ADMIRATION-- The Marines brought more than the American arms/ to Tarawa, they brought the liberties for which the flag has always/ flown. With the Marines sweep through the pacific, Christianity/ also returned to the natives many of whom were deprived of the practice/ of their faith under the Japanese. The cost of this rebirth in the/ islands was Marine dead. Here, Sister Raphael of the Order of the/ Sacred Heart pays tribute as she prays for the most honored of soldiers,/ the unknown man who falls in battle for his country. An Australian,/ Sister Raphael has been stationed in Tarawa, Apiang, and Apamara./
Hdqtrs. No. 99, 577. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
inscribed in ink on verso C: By W.O. RAY CHAPEL/
