LCI: Landing Craft Injured

LCI: Landing Craft Injured

Photograph

LCI: Landing Craft Injured

November 3, 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed on crayon in recto TRC: New Guinea

inscribed in crayon on verso TC: circle around New Guinea

printed in ink on verso: File No: W [illegible] LO 4-54359 RELEASED: November 3, 1943/

stamped in ink on verso BC:[illegible] Aer 54359

DEVASTATION AT LAE/
These Official U. S. Navy Photographs, taken after the occupation of Lae,/ former Japanese stronghold in New Guinea, afford a striking demonstration/ of the power and accuracy of Allied aerial bombardment. Shattered ships,/ planes and installations testify to the "hell on earth" the Japs went/ through before they were vanquished.

LCI: LANDING CRAFT INJURED----Its deck blackened and marred by the explosion/
of a Japanese bomb during landing operations east of Lae in the campaign to/ subdue that Jap stronghold, this Allied LCI (landing craft: infantry) pushed/ on to complete its mission--the debarking of Australian fighting men.

WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
From the viewpoint of Naval security, there are no objections to the use of this/ photograph in commercial advertising (*), providing the accompanying copy and/ layout are submitted, prior to publication, to the/ OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS/ Review Section/ NAVY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C./

(*) NOTE: Compliance with the laws of privacy and other laws pertaining to/ commercial advertising, is the responsibility of parties using this photograph/ in commercial advertising. The Navy Department cannot, and does not assume/ any responsibility for waiving or abrogating such righs as the individual or/ individuals, portrayed in this photograph, may have in that respect.
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