Title from caption on object: “Bazooka Men Ashore”, June 6, 1944

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 × 24.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 26 cm (8 × 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.338

Artists / Makers

Herman V. Wall (artist) American, 1905 - 1997

United States Army Signal Corps (artist)

Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) (publisher) est. 1902

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

Catherine Ryan [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary