[Tarawa battle scene]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Tarawa battle scene]
November 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0055
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 63458
inscribed in pencil on verso TC: M.C. 63458
printed in ink on verso: File No: MHQ 63485/
Tarawa - At the order to charge, Marines swarm over a heavily-reinforced pillbox on/ Tarawa, braving fire from all sides. The only way to silence the stubborn
pillbox de-/ fenders was for the Marines to fight to the top and shoot
down inside at the Jap./
(U.S. Marine Corps photo.)/
(This is print No. 98 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York City.)/
CREDIT LINE OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTOGRAPH/
inscribed in pencil on verso TC: M.C. 63458
printed in ink on verso: File No: MHQ 63485/
Tarawa - At the order to charge, Marines swarm over a heavily-reinforced pillbox on/ Tarawa, braving fire from all sides. The only way to silence the stubborn
pillbox de-/ fenders was for the Marines to fight to the top and shoot
down inside at the Jap./
(U.S. Marine Corps photo.)/
(This is print No. 98 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York City.)/
CREDIT LINE OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTOGRAPH/
