Immediately after the torpedo struck, crewmen started to battle the flames with chemicals from an upper companionway.

Immediately after the torpedo struck, crewmen started to battle the flames with chemicals from an upper companionway.

Photograph

U.S. Navy

Unidentified

Maker

Immediately after the torpedo struck, crewmen started to battle the flames with chemicals from an upper companionway.

From TANKER SAGA--BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC


September 30, 1942
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0482
Inscriptions [verso digitally reproduced in media record ]
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