Prelude to Rabaul Raid
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Prelude to Rabaul Raid
ca. 1944
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: TR-7272
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-7272/
PRELUDE TO RABAUL RAID - Bombers with their fighter escorts roar forth on the raid on Rabaul,/ November 5, 1943. A cruiser, escorting the carrier, is seen on the horizon./
(This is Print no. 51 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 District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-7272/
PRELUDE TO RABAUL RAID - Bombers with their fighter escorts roar forth on the raid on Rabaul,/ November 5, 1943. A cruiser, escorting the carrier, is seen on the horizon./
(This is Print no. 51 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 District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
