Fireworks on Hell's Half Acre
Photograph
Fireworks on Hell's Half Acre
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0017
Inscriptions in negative on recto BR: USMC
inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 111 110
printed in ink on verso: FIREWORKS ON HELL'S HALF ACRE----The first rounds take flight as/ Marine rocketeers launch pyramids of projectiles toward Japanese/ emplacements in support of a Leatherneck advance on Iwo. Being/ mobile, the rocket units resorted to hit and run tactics to/ escape enemy counterfire.
Hdqtrs. No. 111,100. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST Stock-2-4 OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
By Staff Sgt. Rex R. Robbins
inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 111 110
printed in ink on verso: FIREWORKS ON HELL'S HALF ACRE----The first rounds take flight as/ Marine rocketeers launch pyramids of projectiles toward Japanese/ emplacements in support of a Leatherneck advance on Iwo. Being/ mobile, the rocket units resorted to hit and run tactics to/ escape enemy counterfire.
Hdqtrs. No. 111,100. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST Stock-2-4 OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
By Staff Sgt. Rex R. Robbins
