gelatina ai sali d'argento, Office of War Information

Autore
Titolo
Best CBI Pacific Pictures : U.S. Marines besiege Japanese hiding in Peleliu cave
Soggetto
OWI OVERSEAS BRANCH EXHIBIT SECTION EXHIBIT #212 "BEST CBI PACIFIC PICTURES"
Cronologia
1944/10/21
Oggetto
positivo
Materia e tecnica
gelatina ai sali d'argento; BN
Misure
supporto primario: mm, altezza 280, larghezza 350
Collocazione
Trieste (TS)
Palazzo Gopcevich
Fototeca dei Civici musei di storia ed arte
Codice scheda
F_147236
Iscrizioni

Sul verso del supporto primario : OWI OVERSEAS BRANCH/ EXHIBIT SECTION/ EXHIBIT #212-7 "Best CBI-Pacific Pictures/ Week of Oct.21"/ File No. 33896 FMC/ U.S. MARINES BESIEGE JAPANESE HIDING IN PELELIU CAVE/ From the protection of large boulders on this rugged Peleliu/ hillside, U.S. Marine riflemen fire at Japanese hiding in/ the cave at left. The marines landed on Peleliu, one of/ the Palaus in the central PAcific, on Sept. 14,1944. A/ small pocket of resistance was still there on October 11,/ although Peleliu and 10 other islands in the group had/ been brought under U.S. control.Flanking the southeastern/ Philippines, which are only 531 miles (849km.) to the west,/ the Palaus are of major strategic importance in the long-/ distance war against Japan./ APPROVED BY APPROPRIATE U.S. AUTHORITY.\pSul verso del supporto primario, timbro nero : S 428.\p\p\p