Heading for Guam

Heading for Guam

Photograph

Heading for Guam

July 1944
Gelatin silver print
19.6 x 19.6 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0467
Inscriptions verso (printed): FILE NO: TR-10955/
HEADING FOR GUAM - Navy TBF pilots walking toward their awaiting planes on a Task /
Force 58 carrier for a strike against Guam. During the entire Guam occupation/
operation, Navy pilots kept up a daily strafing attack against Jap troops and/ bombing of Jap installations on the island./

(This is print No. 153 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...
[verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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