A Marine is Hit
Photograph
A Marine is Hit
From BATTLE OF SUICIDE RIDGE
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0030
Inscriptions printed in negative on recto BRC: USMC and emblem
printed in ink on verso: SERIES OF 4 PICTURES "BATTLE OF SUICIDE RIDGE"/
A MARINE IS HIT-----Dropping their guns for a few seconds to catch a/ buddie [sic] who has been hit by a Jap sniper and fatally wounded, these/ Marines pause in their barrage of grenades, send hurtling against the enemy/ by rifle and by hand, in the bloody battle of "Suicide Ridge." This is/ one of the campaigns in the battle for Peleliu island in the Palau group./
Hdqtrs. No 95376 WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST 2-4 OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
2-3044 BY PUT. ROBERT A. BAILEY[inscribed in ink]
printed in ink on verso: SERIES OF 4 PICTURES "BATTLE OF SUICIDE RIDGE"/
A MARINE IS HIT-----Dropping their guns for a few seconds to catch a/ buddie [sic] who has been hit by a Jap sniper and fatally wounded, these/ Marines pause in their barrage of grenades, send hurtling against the enemy/ by rifle and by hand, in the bloody battle of "Suicide Ridge." This is/ one of the campaigns in the battle for Peleliu island in the Palau group./
Hdqtrs. No 95376 WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST 2-4 OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO
2-3044 BY PUT. ROBERT A. BAILEY[inscribed in ink]
