Spitting Fire
Photograph

Spitting Fire

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 pencil on verso TC: TR-4285D

printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-4285D/

SPITTING FIRE - 40-mm. gun crews of the USS YORKTOWN blasting the enemy./

(This Print is No. 45 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 Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
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