The Navy's Fledglings
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
The Navy's Fledglings
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 TR: TR4142
inscribed in crayon on recto BR: X in a circle
inscribed in pencil on verso TL: 4142
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-4142/
THE NAVY'S FLEDGLINGS - The cream of the nation's youth - young men in training at the famous/ Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, California, grin broadly as they file out of mess hall. A few/ months hence these youngsters will be men - doing the job of veterans in chasing the Japs from/ the Pacific./
(This is Print No. 23 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 a District Public Information Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
inscribed in crayon on recto BR: X in a circle
inscribed in pencil on verso TL: 4142
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-4142/
THE NAVY'S FLEDGLINGS - The cream of the nation's youth - young men in training at the famous/ Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, California, grin broadly as they file out of mess hall. A few/ months hence these youngsters will be men - doing the job of veterans in chasing the Japs from/ the Pacific./
(This is Print No. 23 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 a District Public Information Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
