Japanese Suicide Pilot Tries to Dive on U.S. Warship

Japanese Suicide Pilot Tries to Dive on U.S. Warship

Photograph

Japanese Suicide Pilot Tries to Dive on U.S. Warship

ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions printed in ink on verso: CINCPAC-POA AH-01110 RELEASED: 28 April 1945/
JAP SUICIDE PILOT TRIES TO DIVE ON U.S. WARSHIP-- Suicide-bent, this pilot/ of a Japanese "Zeke" (Zero) plane (upper center) desperately tries to maneuver/ his plane on to the deck of a U.S. Pacific Fleet warship. In this remarkable/ photograph, the cameraman catches the plane in his lens just before it ends its/ unsuccessful attack crashing into the sea./

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"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 District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
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