Landing at Sansapor
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Landing at Sansapor
July 30, 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto TRC: New Guinea
inscribed in crayon on verso TC: New Guinea
stamped in ink on TR: BUAer 255406
printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER: 255406 RELEASED: September 12, 1944/
LANDING AT SANSAPOR (1)/
Occasionally in this war the Allies have encountered martial lagniappe--occupying/
territory at little or no cost. One of these incidents was the seizure of Sansapor/ in Duth New Guinea. Accompanied by Navy warships, landing craft droned in to hit/ the beach. Tense troops splashed ashore, picked their way into the jungle--to find / it empty of the foe. The camera records--conquest without casualties./
Out of the dying night the black landing craft speed in to the beech. On the horizon/
the warships wait the word to open fire--a word not needed at Sansapor. Though/ bloodless, the move was important in that it isolated 15,000 Japs on New Guinea/.
The date was July 30, 1944./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"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 a District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/
power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
inscribed in crayon on verso TC: New Guinea
stamped in ink on TR: BUAer 255406
printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER: 255406 RELEASED: September 12, 1944/
LANDING AT SANSAPOR (1)/
Occasionally in this war the Allies have encountered martial lagniappe--occupying/
territory at little or no cost. One of these incidents was the seizure of Sansapor/ in Duth New Guinea. Accompanied by Navy warships, landing craft droned in to hit/ the beach. Tense troops splashed ashore, picked their way into the jungle--to find / it empty of the foe. The camera records--conquest without casualties./
Out of the dying night the black landing craft speed in to the beech. On the horizon/
the warships wait the word to open fire--a word not needed at Sansapor. Though/ bloodless, the move was important in that it isolated 15,000 Japs on New Guinea/.
The date was July 30, 1944./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"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 a District Public Relations Office. However, it has no/
power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
