Hitting Wake
Photograph
Hitting Wake
Dawn Attack By Douglas Dauntless Dive Bombers-Wake Island Burns Below-December 1943
October 6, 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 pencil on verso LC: TR-6210
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-6210
HITTING WAKE - This Douglas Dauntless dive bomber (SDB) is ready to plant its 1,000-pound/ bomb on burning, shattered Japanese positions on WAKE Island the morning of October 6, 1943./ It was the second day of the smashing attack by a task force under Rear Admiral Alfred E./ Montgomery, USN. Sixty-one enemy planes were destroyed, together with shipping, barracks,/ shops, and airfield installations./
(This is Print No. 56 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./
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-6210
HITTING WAKE - This Douglas Dauntless dive bomber (SDB) is ready to plant its 1,000-pound/ bomb on burning, shattered Japanese positions on WAKE Island the morning of October 6, 1943./ It was the second day of the smashing attack by a task force under Rear Admiral Alfred E./ Montgomery, USN. Sixty-one enemy planes were destroyed, together with shipping, barracks,/ shops, and airfield installations./
(This is Print No. 56 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./
