Provenance

Catherine Ryan; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

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Inscriptions

on verso, top left printed in black ink circled in red ink: WORLD WAR II - BURMA - BRITISH FORCES; center printed in black ink on applied paper: WIDE WORLD / A43833 PLEASE CREDIT / (THIS PICTURE IS FOR RELEASE TO PAPERS OF / SUNDAY, AUGUST 27 (NOTE RELEASE DATE) AND / THEREAFTER, WITH DOROTHY ROE'S / NEW YORK AP SPECIAL STORY ON CECIL BEATON) / WAR FRONT STUDY BY BEATON / CECIL BEATON, THE WORLD FAMOUS PHOTOG- / RAPHER, HAS TURNED HIS CAMERA FROM THE IN- / TERNATIONAL SET TO THE GRIM FIGHTERS ON / FAR-OFF BATTLE FRONTS. IN HIS FOUR-YEAR / TREK, MAKING PICTURES FOR THE BRITISH / MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, HE HAS DODGED / BULLETS, SLEPT IN FOXHOLES, SHARED THE / PRIVATIONS OF THE MEN HE PHOTOGRAPHED. / IN BURMA [circled in red ink] HE HAD DENGUE FEVER AND DYSEN- / TERY, ACCOMPANIED MERRILL'S MARAUDERS / THROUGH THE JUNGLE. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS / TAKEN BY BEATON ON THE INDIA-BURMA FIGHT- / ING FRONT, IN A FORWARD AREA NEAR ARAKAN. / IT SHOWS NATIVE TROOPS OF THE BRITISH 14TH / ARMY LISTENING TO A JUNGLE "PEP" TALK. / 20091 4 PM 8/18/44 AJE WABC150