Friend or Foe?
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Friend or Foe?
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto TC: BA 47471
inscribed in crayon on recto TR: X with a circle drawn around it
inscribed in crayon on recto RC: BA 47471
inscribed in pencil on verso TC: Buaer 47471
printed in ink on verso: File No. BuAer 47471/
FRIEND OR FOE? - Eyes of anti-aircraft gun grews of a U.S. Navy cruiser covering the/ Mindoro landing, strain to spot the status of an unidentified plane overhead. The heavy/ 5" guns are tracking the "bogey" as are the 40-mm. machine guns forward. The 20-mms. in/ foreground will quickly add their voices to the roar if the plane makes a hostile move./ Japs tried unsuccessfully to stop the December 18, 1944, landings which put Allied forces/ only 120 miles from Manila./
(This is Print no. 58 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./
inscribed in crayon on recto TR: X with a circle drawn around it
inscribed in crayon on recto RC: BA 47471
inscribed in pencil on verso TC: Buaer 47471
printed in ink on verso: File No. BuAer 47471/
FRIEND OR FOE? - Eyes of anti-aircraft gun grews of a U.S. Navy cruiser covering the/ Mindoro landing, strain to spot the status of an unidentified plane overhead. The heavy/ 5" guns are tracking the "bogey" as are the 40-mm. machine guns forward. The 20-mms. in/ foreground will quickly add their voices to the roar if the plane makes a hostile move./ Japs tried unsuccessfully to stop the December 18, 1944, landings which put Allied forces/ only 120 miles from Manila./
(This is Print no. 58 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./
