Now an assignment for a salvage crew, the sunken Japanese cruiser IWATE was once a unit in a proud fleet that sought to rule the Pacific.

Now an assignment for a salvage crew, the sunken Japanese cruiser IWATE was once a unit in a proud fleet that sought to rule the Pacific.

Photograph

U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

Now an assignment for a salvage crew, the sunken Japanese cruiser IWATE was once a unit in a proud fleet that sought to rule the Pacific.

From JAPAN'S "BONEYARD BAY"--KURE HARBOR


November 10, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0436
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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