Title from caption on object: “Bazooka Men Ashore”
June 6, 1944
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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.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.338
About the Artist
Herman V. Wall, United States Army Signal Corps
Herman V. Wall (1905–1997), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to German immigrant parents Wilhelm and Dorly Wall, developed an early passion for the outdoors and photography amid a family of five siblings. After moving to Los Angeles in 1926, he supported himself at the Hollywood YMCA while enrolling in the inaugural classes at the Art Center School (now ArtCenter College of Design). There, he studied...