Torpedo Junction
Photograph
Torpedo Junction
ca. 1943
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 TL: 1532
printed in ink on the verso:1532/
FROM/
PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION/
U.S. COAST GUARD/
WASHINGTON, D.C./
OFFICIAL COAST GUARD PHOTO/
"TORPEDO JUNCTION" WINS THIRD HONORS AT/ COAST GUARD EXHIBIT
A PHOTOGRAPH OF THREE BRITISH SEAMEN TOSSING ON A LIFE RAFT IN/
A HEAVY SEA AND CARRING [sic] THE CAPTION "TORPEDO JUNCTION" WAS CHOSEN/ AS THE THIRD BEST PHOTO IN AN EXHIBIT OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD AT/ WAR SHOWN RECENTLY AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN WASHINGTON, D.C./ THE PICTURE WAS MADE BY COAST GUARD WARRANT OFFICER JACK JANUARY/ OF ST. LOUIS, MO., AS THE THREE SURVIVORS OF A U-BOAT TORPEDO ATTACK/ WERE BEING RESCUED BY A COAST GUAR COMBAT CUTTER IN THE NORTH/ ATLANTIC./ FOUR MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JUDGED THE SHOWING./
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IN REWRITING CAPTION, PLEASE MENTION "COAST GUARD".
printed in ink on the verso:1532/
FROM/
PUBLIC INFORMATION DIVISION/
U.S. COAST GUARD/
WASHINGTON, D.C./
OFFICIAL COAST GUARD PHOTO/
"TORPEDO JUNCTION" WINS THIRD HONORS AT/ COAST GUARD EXHIBIT
A PHOTOGRAPH OF THREE BRITISH SEAMEN TOSSING ON A LIFE RAFT IN/
A HEAVY SEA AND CARRING [sic] THE CAPTION "TORPEDO JUNCTION" WAS CHOSEN/ AS THE THIRD BEST PHOTO IN AN EXHIBIT OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD AT/ WAR SHOWN RECENTLY AT THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB IN WASHINGTON, D.C./ THE PICTURE WAS MADE BY COAST GUARD WARRANT OFFICER JACK JANUARY/ OF ST. LOUIS, MO., AS THE THREE SURVIVORS OF A U-BOAT TORPEDO ATTACK/ WERE BEING RESCUED BY A COAST GUAR COMBAT CUTTER IN THE NORTH/ ATLANTIC./ FOUR MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB JUDGED THE SHOWING./
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IN REWRITING CAPTION, PLEASE MENTION "COAST GUARD".
