ARMY-NAVY 'ONE-TWO' PUNCH NEUTRALIZES NEW GUINEA
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ARMY-NAVY 'ONE-TWO' PUNCH NEUTRALIZES NEW GUINEA
April 22, 1944
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions recto (black grease pencil): New Guinea
verso (printed): File No: 251090 RELEASED: May 13, 1944
ARMY-NAVY 'ONE-TWO' PUNCH NEUTRALIZES NEW GUINEA
Climaxing a three-weeks 1,500-ton aerial bombardment, thousands of American
troops landed on Netherland New Guinea in three sectors on April 22, 1944,
thus cutting off an estimated 60,000 Jap soldiers defending teh Pacific Island.
These OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS depict the landing at Humboldt bay,
where one invading force found little Jap opposition, moved quickly inland to
seize coastal airfields. Giant bulldozers and trucks followed the first wave in,
to renovate the fields after their capture.
Navy ships and planes drop a curtain of fire before the landing craft as the
first wave of troops move in against Jap defenses on Humboldt bay. So accurate
was the bombardement, the barges swept up to the shore right on the heels of the
forward-moving explosives, which throw up geysers of water on the beach.
(grease pencil): [illegible, looks like "Hollaudin"]
(printed): WATCH YOUR CREDIT
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in
commercial advertising, 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 a District Public Relations Office. However, it has no power to waive the privacy rights
of the personnel portrayed.
verso (printed): File No: 251090 RELEASED: May 13, 1944
ARMY-NAVY 'ONE-TWO' PUNCH NEUTRALIZES NEW GUINEA
Climaxing a three-weeks 1,500-ton aerial bombardment, thousands of American
troops landed on Netherland New Guinea in three sectors on April 22, 1944,
thus cutting off an estimated 60,000 Jap soldiers defending teh Pacific Island.
These OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS depict the landing at Humboldt bay,
where one invading force found little Jap opposition, moved quickly inland to
seize coastal airfields. Giant bulldozers and trucks followed the first wave in,
to renovate the fields after their capture.
Navy ships and planes drop a curtain of fire before the landing craft as the
first wave of troops move in against Jap defenses on Humboldt bay. So accurate
was the bombardement, the barges swept up to the shore right on the heels of the
forward-moving explosives, which throw up geysers of water on the beach.
(grease pencil): [illegible, looks like "Hollaudin"]
(printed): WATCH YOUR CREDIT
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in
commercial advertising, 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 a District Public Relations Office. However, it has no power to waive the privacy rights
of the personnel portrayed.
