20 Official 10x8 Photos 1983 USS NEW JERSEY Beirut Lebonan WAYNE NEWTON USO For Sale

THIS LISTING IS A LOT OF TWENTY (20) ALL DIFFERENT, VINTAGE, HISTORIC, 1983, OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY 8\" X 10\" (and 10\" X 8\") B&W PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF AND ABOUT THE BATTLESHIP USS NEW JERSEY(BB-62) IN DECEMBER 1983IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEAOFF THE COAST OF BEIRUT LEBONANDURING THE MILITARY ACTION (bombardment and civilian evacuation) WHICH FOLLOWED THE SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK OF THE HQ\'s 1st BATTALION 8th MARINES BARRACKS KILLING 241 U.S. SERVICEMEN ON OCTOBER 23, 1983!

- - - PHOTOS showing the USS New Jersey; general on-board scenes and facilities; various officers and personnel; the New Jersey\'s famous 16\" guns / powder bags /battery plot rooms, etc.; Christmas religious services being held on the Mess Decks; U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman on-board giving a pep-talk; civilian evacuation scenes; WAYNE NEWTON PERFORMING HIS CHRISTMAS USO SHOW ON THE FANTAIL; - - - AND several other related scenes!- - - EACH photo with an official U.S. Navy archive stamp / or press release slip / or photocopy archive label on the back sides which describe the specific scenes shown, and several name specific USS New Jersey personnel!

FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT \"Bob\" CARLISLE (1924 - 2025) USN Retired (34-years) - - - RENOWNED U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER AND ICONIC DOCUMENTOR OF PIVOTAL 20th CENTURY HISTORICAL EVENTS! If you are not familiar with Bob Carlisle please google him - - - His prolific life and career could be made into a movie! - - - HE ENLISTED IN THE NAVY ON DECEMBER 8, 1941 (the day after Pearl Harbor) AND WITH OVER 30-YEARS AS A SENIOR CHIEF U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHER (and later 4-years in the U.S. Air Force) HE LITERALLY TOOK 100\'s OF THOUSANDS OF ORIGINAL OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY, NAVAL AVIATION, and U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTOGRAPHS and SLIDES ALL OVER THE WORLD - - - AND LATER WAS LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER FOR THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION AT THE PENTAGON DURING WHICH HE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN PHOTO-DOCUMENTING MANY HISTORICAL MOMENTS INCLUDING PRESIDENTIAL, NASA, MILITARY OPERATIONS, and OTHERS! - - - HE IS CREDITED AS A CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER ON MANY U.S. MILITARY AND OTHER PUBLISHED BOOKS! - - - ADDITIONALLY, HE BECAME ONE OF THE WORLD\'s MOST PROMINENT COLLECTORS AND PRESERVATIONISTS OF EVERYTHING RELATED TO PHOTOGRAPHY WITH A FOCUS ON U.S. MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHS(literally saving hundreds of thousands of archived, obsolete, original U.S. Navy photographs from destruction during the micro-film era), - - - BUT ALSO INCLUDING CAMERAS FROM THE DAWN OF PHOTOGRAPHY, HIS OWN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES, OTHER OFFICAL and HISTORICAL U.S. MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHS, SLIDES OF ALL KINDS, and OTHER ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL KINDS (daguerreotypes, tintypes; cabinet cards, and more), and EVEN PHOTOGRAPHY-RELATED ADVERTISING!

The item listed below is from his MASSIVE archive collection - - - Please check back as I will be listing many other items from this HISTORIC collection over the next several months!

Seeall 23 images including close-ups AND see the 12-inch ruler in images for size perspective! ALL twenty (20) photos are official U.S. Navy 8\" X 10\" photographs on vintage photographic paper, ALL dated December 1983 with an official U. S. Navy archive stamp / press release slip / or photocopy archive label on the back sides, as shown! These photographs are prints professionally developed by Bob Carlisle in his own photographic lab from original negatives or slides!

AN AMAZING LOT OF A SPECIFIC, HISTORIC U.S. NAVY / U.S.M.C. EVENT - - - ANDWE COMBINE ITEMS FOR ECONOMICAL SHIPPING, JUST ADD ITEMS TO YOUR CART AND REQUEST AN INVOICE- - -Some extremely isolated and extremely faint long-term storage wear and/or age-toning - - - OTHERWISE ALL 20 PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COMPLETELY UNMARKED and in excellent or better VINTAGE condition! CHECK OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE GREAT STUFF!