Elsewhere on the tanker, other members of the crew take steps to prevent the fire from spreading and gaining a new foothold by pouring water on burlap sacking covers over oil tanks.

Elsewhere on the tanker, other members of the crew take steps to prevent the fire from spreading and gaining a new foothold by pouring water on burlap sacking covers over oil tanks.

Photograph

U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

Elsewhere on the tanker, other members of the crew take steps to prevent the fire from spreading and gaining a new foothold by pouring water on burlap sacking covers over oil tanks.

From TANKER SAGA--BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC


September 30, 1942
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0486
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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