Title from caption on object: “Pound Viet Cong”, October 23, 1965

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.2 × 24.3 cm (7 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.560

Artists / Makers

Kyoichi Sawada (artist) Japanese, 1936 - 1970

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: L2805 / UPI; center UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right stamped in black ink: FOR PERSONAL USE ONL[Y] / NOT FOR PUBLICATIO[N] [underlined]; by unknown hand, center right in graphite inverted: In [illegible]; bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: NXP 1492720 . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / POUND VIET CONG / PLEIME, SOUTH VIET NAM: The defenders of the besieged / Pleime Special Forces camp watch a bomb burst October / 23rd as American fighter-bombers pound a Viet Cong / position a short distance away. The camp had been / under attack for a week by Communist guerillas, re- / inforced by Northern Vietnamese regulars. / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER KYOICHI SAWADA) / 10/27/65 gd

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary