Pilots Aboard USS Lexington
Dateabout 1943
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions19.3 x 12.2 cm (image), 20.7 x 15.3 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPhotographs
MarkingsOn verso: U.S. Navy stamps in blue ink: (This is Print No. 153 in the U.S. Navy Exhibit "Power in the Pacific at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.) | FILE NO: TR-10955 | RELEASED: January 23, 1945 | HEADING FOR GUAM - Navy TBF pilots walking toward their waiting planes on a Task Force 58 carrier for a strike against Guam. During the entire Guam occupation operation, Navy pilots kept up a daily strafing attack against Jap troops and bombing of Jap installations on the island. | WATCH YOUR CREDIT | "OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH" | The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commerical 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.
Stamp in black ink: "POWER IN THE PACIFIC | Battle Photographs of our Navy in | Action on the Sea and in the Sky. | Jan. 24, 1945,-Mar. 18, 1945 | The Museum of Modern Art | 11 West 53 St., New York"
In black ink: "Please return to Worcester Art Museum".
Stamp in black ink: "TR10955" "BJ 20 9"
Credit LineTransfer from Museum Archives
Terms
Object number2003.134
Provenancetransferred from the museum archivesOn View
Not on view
