Marines Advancing, Tarawa, Gilbert Islands
Artist/Culture
Obie Newcomb, Jr.
(American, 1909–1979)
Date1943
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 19.8 x 24 cm (7 13/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 21 x 25.4 cm (8 1/4 x 10 in.)
sheet: 21 x 25.4 cm (8 1/4 x 10 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
MarkingsOn Verso: USMC 63458. At the order to charge, Marines swarm over a heavily-reinforced pillbox on Tarawa, braving fire from all sides. The only way to silence the stubborn pillbox defenders was for the Marines to fight to the top and shoot down inside at the Japs.
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"
Stamp & Graphite: "Unit M.C. 63458
RELEASED OFFICIAL NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH
If published,
Credit Line Must Read
US. Marine Corps
#98
In black ink: "Please return to Worcester Art Museum".
Credit LineTransfer from the Museum Archives
Terms
Object number2003.130
Provenancetransferred from the museum archivesOn View
Not on view
Norman Carver, Jr.
20th century
Mizuno Toshikata
March 1895 (Meiji 28)
