Title from caption on object: “Sargent Glen Longstreet of Garden City, Michigan and SP4 Clayton A. Winkler of Wolfe Creek, Oregon Look at Bodies of Viet Cong Guerilla...”

February 24, 1966

Kyoichi Sawada

Artist, Japanese, 1936 - 1970

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.562


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along right edge printed in image: NXP/SGP1507540-2/28/66-TAN BINH, S. VIET NAM: S/Sgt. Glen Longstreet (L) of Garden City, Mich., / and SP4 Clayton A. Winkler of Wolfe Creek, Ore., look at bodies of Viet Cong guerrillas in dry / rice paddy early 2/24. At least 89 Communists were killed during a vicious night assault on a / U.S. 1st Infantry Division encampment during operation “Mastiff.” =hgr= / UPI TELEPHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER KYOICHI SAWADA; on verso, upper center stamped in black ink: VIETNAM/ [underlined in red pencil] / VIETCONG DEAD; center left stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / MAR 3 1964; center UPI copyright stamp in brown ink


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