Title from caption on object: “Bazooka Men Ashore”
June 6, 1944
Artist, American, 1905 - 1997
Publisher, est. 1902
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19 × 24.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 26 cm (8 × 10 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.338
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Catherine Ryan [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, lower left in negative: 189900-S; lower right US Army Signal Corps logo in negative; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in graphite inverted: A55225 57; center printed in black ink on applied paper: BAZOOKA MEN ASHORE / Another original picture made by Army Signal Corps photographers of an / American assault wave landing in Northern France. In the center, back- / ground, are the bazooka men, their deadly weapons carried at the "ready." / The harbor is jammed with assault craft waiting to unload more Yanks. / Are you backing them up by buying EXTRA War Bonds during the Fifth War / Loan? / Army Signal Corps Photo / From U S Treasury; lower center stamped in blue ink inverted: REF. DEPT. / 6-1444 / N.E.A.