Anti-Aircraft Barrage Lights Evening Sky

Anti-Aircraft Barrage Lights Evening Sky

Photograph

Anti-Aircraft Barrage Lights Evening Sky

April 7, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in negative on recto BR: 20

stamped in ink on verso TR: AD 20 1
inscribed in pencil on verso RC: BuAer 311870

printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER 311870 RELEASED: April 25, 1945/

ANTI-AIRCRAFT BARRAGE LIGHTS EVENING SKY-- Myriads of tracers fly across/ the darkened sky and black bursts from heavy caliber guns hang over a/ U.S. Navy anchorage in the Western Pacific as ships throw up a barrage/ to repel attacking Jap planes, April 7, 1945./

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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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