"The U. S. Fleet Goes Into Action: First War Pictures in the Pacific", Life Magazine, 5 January 1942

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"The U. S. Fleet Goes Into Action: First War Pictures in the Pacific", Life Magazine , 5 January 1942

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[Caption] At 9 o'clock on the sunny morning of Dec. 7, the articles of war are read to the crew of a U.S. heavy cruiser on active duty in the Pacific Ocean

THE U.S. FLEET GOES INTO ACTION

FIRST WAR PICTURES IN PACIFIC

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7 found a fast powerful task force of the U. S. Fleet carrying out scouting and patrol duty in the middle of the Pacific. Aboard a heavy cruiser in this task force were two LMAG staff men-Photographer Bob Landry and Reporter Richard Wilcox-who had been assigned to cover Hawaii and the Pacific Fleet three weeks prior to the outbreak of war. For more than a week at sea with this fighting force they were privileged to obtain the following picture-and-word account-the first to be approved by the Navy Department-which shows how the U. S. Fleet quickly manned its battle stations and went into action against the enemy.

Because of Pearl Harbor, there has been a public tendency to low-rate the U. S. Navy. Landry's pictures and Wilcox's text reveal the error of this snap judgment. On the following pages the reader will see a grim fleet force that looks quite different from the Navy of maneuvers and reviews. Here are the ships and planes and men that must keep an aggressive contest going against the Navy's main enemy-the Japanese Fleet.

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Citation :	"The U. S. Fleet Goes Into Action: First War Pictures in the Pacific" Life Magazine (Chicago, Illinois), 5 January 1942, James Harvey Brown Papers.
Location :	East Carolina Manuscript Collection, Manuscripts and Rare Books, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 USA
Call Number :	James Harvey Brown Papers #547.7.1.2. Display Collection Guide


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