Title from caption on object: “The German Pilot of This Enemy Fighter Craft Hurtles through the Air...”
January 1945
Artist, American, 1921 - 1969
Publisher
James B. Dalglish
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.4 × 18.5 cm (9 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 24 × 19.3 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.332
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, top left printed in black ink circled in red ink: WORLD WAR II - GERMAN - AIR FORCE; by unknown hand, center left in red pencil: #9 / 373--; center Associated Press copyright stamp in pink ink perpendicular; center right stamped in blue ink: ENGRAVING / DEPT. / AM 8:35; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: 4 [circled] / BP; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: The German pilot of this enemy fighter craft hurtles through the air, legs out- / stretched as his damaged plane plunges earthward without control after Maj. James / Dalglish of Rome, N. Y., a fighter bomber pilot of the United States Ninth air force, / had carried out an attack in an air battle over the Belgian bulge. Photo was made by / Maj. Dalglish.--AP Wirephoto from army air forces.; bottom center printed in black ink on applied sticker: 24