[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso RC: CW - 1 - 36/ 307149/
printed in ink on verso: BuAer 307149/
Taken from USS NEVADA during the bombardment of the Island of Iwo Jima. Feb 27, 1945/
Photographer--Joseph J. McGuire, PhoM3c./
Hot Rocks under heavy fire from our 49's./
stamped in ink on verso BC: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH/ NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION/ BY ORDER OF/ THE CHEIF OF THE BUREAU/ OF AERONAUTICS/
CONFIDENTIAL/
printed in ink on verso: BuAer 307149/
Taken from USS NEVADA during the bombardment of the Island of Iwo Jima. Feb 27, 1945/
Photographer--Joseph J. McGuire, PhoM3c./
Hot Rocks under heavy fire from our 49's./
stamped in ink on verso BC: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH/ NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION/ BY ORDER OF/ THE CHEIF OF THE BUREAU/ OF AERONAUTICS/
CONFIDENTIAL/
