Title from caption on object: “Backing the Attack on Iwo Jima”

February 19, 1945

Paul Queenan, U.S. Coast Guard

Associated Names
Paul Queenan

Artist, American, 1913 - 1999

U.S. Coast Guard

Artist

International News Photos, Inc.

Publisher

This is a photograph of military ships and supplies being unloaded on a beach. The vessels are positioned closely to the shore, with ramps lowered and crates and boxes being unloaded onto the beach. The sky is overcast, waves are crashing onto the shore, and the image is in black and white.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.7 × 16.3 cm (4 5/8 × 6 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 13 × 17.8 cm (5 1/8 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.350

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: War World II Pacific. Okinowa [sic] & Iwo Jima; center International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, lower center in purple crayon on applied paper inverted: 45; bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: SOUNDPHOTO..SOUNDPHOTO / U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO FROM / H-20...WATCH YOUR CREDIT..INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO / SLUG (LST'S IWO) / BACKING THE ATTACK ON IWO / IWO JIMA.....NAVY LANDING CRAFT. GREAT JAWS AGAPE POUR / OUT STREAMS OF SUPPLIES TO BACK THE ATTACK OF THE GALLANT / MARINES ON IWO JIMA. ONLY A FEW HOURS AFTER THE LEATHER- / NECKS HAD HACKED OUT THIS TOEHOLD ON FUTATSUNE BEACH, / COAST GUARD-MANNED LANDING CRAFT POURED THE SINEWS OF / WAR ASHORE LIKE THIS. / W.3.3.45

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