Death of the Wasp
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Photograph
U.S. Navy
Maker
Death of the Wasp
ca. 1942
Gelatin silver print
Image: 18.1 x 22.7 cm (7 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.)
Paper: 18.7 x 23.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0358.0015
Inscriptions verso (typed in blue): File No. W-NSSD[?]-66-13[illeg.]4 / END OF THE WASP / Turned into a blasting inferno by three enemy torpedoes which / ripped into her vitals, the USS WASP lists to starboard as smoke / billows out of the ocean. / Several figures and a plane can be seen at the bow, and other / men at the stern. The 14,700 ton airplane carrier was successfully / attacked by an enemy submarine, September 15, while escorting ships / and supplies for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. / The white streak in the foreground is the wake of the ship from / which this picture was taken.
(typed in black): DEATH OF THE WASP
(stamped in red): PHOTO COURTESY /PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE / [illeg.] NAVAL [illeg.] / 90 [rest of the inscription illegible as it is hidden under the trace of paper previously adhered to verso]
(typed in black): DEATH OF THE WASP
(stamped in red): PHOTO COURTESY /PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE / [illeg.] NAVAL [illeg.] / 90 [rest of the inscription illegible as it is hidden under the trace of paper previously adhered to verso]
