[War plane over ocean]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[War plane over ocean]
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.5 × 24.4 cm)
Paper: 8 3/16 × 11 in. (20.8 × 27.9 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0248
Inscriptions Printed in blue ink on verso, TL: File No. BuAer 231202 JAP "JILL" ATTACKS CARRIER - Jap torpedo bomber "Jill" flying through hail of AA fire toward a U.S. carrier to attack, during the raid of Truk, Caroline Islands. (This is Print No. 64 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.)
Printed in blue ink on verso, LC: WATCH YOUR CREDIT "OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH" The Navy Departmenthas no objection to the use of this photograph in comercial advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to publication to the REVI[illegible] [illegible]ECTION, OFFIC 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.
Signed in pencil on verso, RC: Bu Aur 231202
Printed in blue ink on verso, LC: WATCH YOUR CREDIT "OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH" The Navy Departmenthas no objection to the use of this photograph in comercial advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to publication to the REVI[illegible] [illegible]ECTION, OFFIC 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.
Signed in pencil on verso, RC: Bu Aur 231202
