[Navy warships shell Japanese homeland]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Navy warships shell Japanese homeland]
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm)
Image: 7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (19.4 × 24.5 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0280
Inscriptions printed in blue ink on verso, TL: FILE NUMBER: 700,106 RELEASED: JULY 30, 1945
printed in blue ink on verso, LC: FIRST PHOTOS:\NAVY WARSHIPS SHELL JAP HOMELAND-Black and craggy in the near distance,\the islands of the Jap homeland come under the sights of these Navy\battleships as the enemy's 'sacred soil' is battered at will by the U.S.\Pacific Fleet steamed up to almost rifle range and blasted steel\plants and other Jap installations at near-point-blank range without\opposition from the foe. This and other photographs of the bombardment\of Japan are clips from Official U.S. Navy motion pictures soon to be\released to newsreel companies.
printed in blue ink on verso, BL: 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 INFORMATION, NAVY DEPARTMENT,\ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to a District Public Information Office. However, it has no\power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed.
printed in blue ink on verso, LC: FIRST PHOTOS:\NAVY WARSHIPS SHELL JAP HOMELAND-Black and craggy in the near distance,\the islands of the Jap homeland come under the sights of these Navy\battleships as the enemy's 'sacred soil' is battered at will by the U.S.\Pacific Fleet steamed up to almost rifle range and blasted steel\plants and other Jap installations at near-point-blank range without\opposition from the foe. This and other photographs of the bombardment\of Japan are clips from Official U.S. Navy motion pictures soon to be\released to newsreel companies.
printed in blue ink on verso, BL: 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 INFORMATION, NAVY DEPARTMENT,\ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to a District Public Information Office. However, it has no\power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed.
