[Bull's Eye!]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Bull's Eye!]
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on verso C: first a bomb then a pic
inscribed in crayon on verso BL:anti sub
printed in ink on verso: File No: ES-174-206706 RELEASED: February 2,1944/
BULL'S EYE!- Pumping a bomb squarely midships on a Japanese oil barge off the/ coast of New Ireland, a U.S. Navy Consolidated LIBERATOR (PB4Y) also 'shoots' its/ victim with a K-20 aerial camera - thus bringing back proof of its strike and a/ good war picture in one operation. (Two firms make the type of camera used - / Fairchild and Folmer-Graflex Corporation.)/
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 verso BL:anti sub
printed in ink on verso: File No: ES-174-206706 RELEASED: February 2,1944/
BULL'S EYE!- Pumping a bomb squarely midships on a Japanese oil barge off the/ coast of New Ireland, a U.S. Navy Consolidated LIBERATOR (PB4Y) also 'shoots' its/ victim with a K-20 aerial camera - thus bringing back proof of its strike and a/ good war picture in one operation. (Two firms make the type of camera used - / Fairchild and Folmer-Graflex Corporation.)/
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./
