The Naval Aviation Photographic Unit was a group of military photographers in the United States Navy during the Second World War, under the command of Edward Steichen.
Gerald Ford is the jumper on the left of this 1944 photograph on board USS Monterey by Victor Jorgensen
A portrait of RAdm John S. McCain, Sr., by Steichen, from 1943
"Aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 return to the USS Lexington (CV-16) during the Gilberts operation, November 1943." Photographed by Commander Edward Steichen, USNR.
Humorous sign put up by the troops, photographed by Charles Fenno Jacobs on Tarawa.
Horace Bristol
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Horace Bristol was a twentieth-century American photographer, best known for his work in Life. His photos appeared in Time, Fortune, Sunset, and National Geographic magazines.
Naval Aviation Photographic Unit
…Notes & Refs. Lt Wayne Miller Lt Dwight Long (who specialized in movies, not photography as such) Lt Charles E. Kerlee Lt Charles Fenno Jacobs Lt Cdr Horace Bristol En Victor Jorgensen En Alfonso ("Fons") Iannelli Steichen wanted Ansel Adams to be part of the unit, to build and direct a state-of-the-art darkroom…
Bristol in 1944