Flames still rage around the gaping hole torn by the torpedo when it struck the tanker approximately amidships on the port side.

Flames still rage around the gaping hole torn by the torpedo when it struck the tanker approximately amidships on the port side.

Photograph

U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

Flames still rage around the gaping hole torn by the torpedo when it struck the tanker approximately amidships on the port side.

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
1974.0025.0487
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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