Supplies Roll In

Supplies Roll In

Photograph

Supplies Roll In

ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0012
Inscriptions in negative on recto BR: USMC and emblem printed in reverse

printed in ink on verso: SUPPLIES ROLL IN-----Silhouetted against the sun, barrels of/ gasoline, oil, and water, are rolled across the 500-yard reef from/ transports and supply ships to the Marines fighing on Peleliu/ Island. Marine, Sailors, and Seabees, cooperate in the barrel/ rolling feat.

Hdqtrs. No. 95,606. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Tech. Sgt. G. A. Fitzgerald
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