Night Prowler
Photograph

Night Prowler

ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso BR: TR-9572

printed in ink on verso: File No. TR-9572/

NIGHT PROWLER - A Black Cat, part of the night squadron made up of original VP-12 and VP-81,/ starting out on a lonely mission in the Pacific. This Cat may be on its way to strafe enemy/ positions or to drop its 500-pounders on enemy ships trying to sneak through the region with/ supplies./

(This is Print No. 50 in the U. S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific" at the Museum of/
Modern Art, New York City.)/

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./

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