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
Artist, Japanese, 1936 - 1970
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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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