Just Another Passage
Photograph
Just Another Passage
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0015
Inscriptions in negative on recto BR: USMC
printed in ink on verso: JUST ANOTHER PASSAGE----To this old timer of Okinawa, the/
war rolling over his home island is just another passage in his/ long years of life. He seems more concerned with the prospects/ of rain and bombs or shells. Marines caring for these natives/ don't know his age but they say he is one of the oldest./
Hdqtrs. No. 120,056. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
inscribed in ink on verso BC: BY SGT. GEORGE TORRIE/
printed in ink on verso: JUST ANOTHER PASSAGE----To this old timer of Okinawa, the/
war rolling over his home island is just another passage in his/ long years of life. He seems more concerned with the prospects/ of rain and bombs or shells. Marines caring for these natives/ don't know his age but they say he is one of the oldest./
Hdqtrs. No. 120,056. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U. S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
inscribed in ink on verso BC: BY SGT. GEORGE TORRIE/
