EXCITING MOMENT

EXCITING MOMENT

Photograph

EXCITING MOMENT

November 5, 1944
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions verso (printed): 4966 CinCPac 5 November 1944.
EXCITING MOMENT---The men aboard U. S. Pacific Fleet carriers had many exciting moments during the recent sea battle of the Philippine Sea. This man watches a
bomb from a Japanese bomber just miss another U. S. Pacific Fleet carrier, send-
ing up a towering spray of smoke and water.
Credit: Official U. S. Navy Photograph, Pacific Fleet.

RELEASED OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH
If Published Credit Line Must Read
OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH, PACIFIC FLEET,
Signed N. R. White.
By direction.
(stamped): BUAER
(stamped): 284451
(pencil): [illegible]
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