[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]

[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]

Photograph

[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]

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 pencil on verso RC: CW - 1 - 36/ 307149/

printed in ink on verso: BuAer 307149/
Taken from USS NEVADA during the bombardment of the Island of Iwo Jima. Feb 27, 1945/
Photographer--Joseph J. McGuire, PhoM3c./
Hot Rocks under heavy fire from our 49's./

stamped in ink on verso BC: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH/ NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION/ BY ORDER OF/ THE CHEIF OF THE BUREAU/ OF AERONAUTICS/

CONFIDENTIAL/
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