Basket-ball at Guam
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Basket-ball at Guam
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso TC: TR - 10948
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-10948/
BASKET-BALL AT GUAM - Navy pilots using the forward elevator well of a Task Force 58 carrier/ for a game of basketball as the carrier made her way back from Guam after the island was/ taken from the Japs. These pilots were among the Navy men who took to the air daily during/ the Guam occupation to strafe enemy troops and to destroy enemy installations./
(This is print No. 46 in the U. S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of/
Modern Art, New York City.)/
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 RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT,/ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to a District Public Relations, Navy Department,/
printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-10948/
BASKET-BALL AT GUAM - Navy pilots using the forward elevator well of a Task Force 58 carrier/ for a game of basketball as the carrier made her way back from Guam after the island was/ taken from the Japs. These pilots were among the Navy men who took to the air daily during/ the Guam occupation to strafe enemy troops and to destroy enemy installations./
(This is print No. 46 in the U. S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of/
Modern Art, New York City.)/
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 RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT,/ WASHINGTON, D.C., or to a District Public Relations, Navy Department,/
