"Green Dragons" of New Guinea

"Green Dragons" of New Guinea

Photograph

"Green Dragons" of New Guinea

November 5, 1943
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 recto TRC: New Guinea

inscribed in crayon on verso TC: circle drawn around printed text "NEW GUINEA"
stamped in ink on verso RT: BuAer 53831
inscribed in pencil on verso C: 310-264/ 53831

printed in ink on verso: File No: GS-LUV-15-53831 RELEASED: November 5, 1943/

"GREEN DRAGONS OF NEW GUINEA"/
Sharp thorns in the side of the Japanese, the Navy's PT boats have fitted/ admirably in the Allied campaign to cut off and seize enemy strongholds in/ the south Pacific. Because of their small size and the comparatively minor/ demands they make in the line of installations, the torpedo boats can be/ based in the inlets and river mouths that abound in the tropic islands groups./ Screened by the overhanging trees and the camouflage they have added the men/ of the PT squadrons live in comparative comfort in bases and have have hewed out/ of the "gumbo" soil with the aid of the natives. Then at night they slip/
out for the sudden attacks which the name "Green Dragons" from the/ apprehensive Japanese. PT boats from these bases participated in the campaign/ which crumbled the Jap bastion at Lae./

Crewmen roll drums of fuel off the ramp of an LCM at the PT base in New Guinea./

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"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
From the viewpoint of Naval security, there are no objections to the use of this/ photograph in commercial advertising(*), providing the accompanying copy and/ layout are submitted, prior to publication, to the/
OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS/
Review Section/
NAVY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D.C./
(*) NOTE: Compliance with the laws of privacy and other laws pertaining to/ commercial advertising, the the responsibility of parties using this photograph/ in commercial advertising. The Navy Department canot, and does not assume/ any responsibility for waiving or abrogating such rights as the individual or/ individuals, portrayed in this photogrpah, may have in that respect./
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