Navy ship under attack by Japanese forces
black-and-white photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSSOLOMON ISLANDS, Central (province), Nggela Sule (island), Tulaghi (village)
circa 1943
emulsion on paper
overall: 3-1/4 x 2-1/4 in.
Photograph; black-and-white photograph of U.S. navy ship under attack by Japanese airplanes, firing 20 mm cannon; shot is blurry because of firing of cannon; handwritten on back "ZEROS OVERHEAD/ Note ejected shell cases./ No more of this stuff/ soon. Nothing but you/ and empty skies. Yipee!/ Funny how this blur/ red just the way every-/ thing does in action./ Lucky my camera/ was handy."
2004.81.94