Third Fleet Pictured After the Surrender of the Japanese

Third Fleet Pictured After the Surrender of the Japanese

Photograph

Third Fleet Pictured After the Surrender of the Japanese

August 17, 1945
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions stamped in ink on verso in LC: H 20 9
printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER: 490362 CINCPAC-POA RELEASED: August 20, 1945/

THIRD FLEET PICTURED FOLLOWING SURRENDER OF JAPS--Admiral William F. Halsey's/ Third Fleet steams in formation close to the coast of the Japan homeland, 17/ August 1945, following the news of Japan's offering to surrender.

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