Title from caption on object: “Caring for a Casualty”, March 8, 1968

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 21.1 × 16.9 cm (8 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 22.9 × 17.9 cm (9 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.579

Artists / Makers

John T. Wheeler (artist) American, 1925 - 2013

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, upper center stamped in black ink underlined in red ink: VIETNAM/ [circled in red ink] U. S. CASUALTIES; center printed in black ink on applied paper: AP NEWSFEATURE PHOTO / D-5043 PLEASE CREDIT / (for use Sunday, Mar. 24, with / John T. Wheeler's Khe Sanh APN / Story on The Other Battle In / Vietnam) / CARING FOR A CASUALTY / While the battles of Khe Sanh, / Vietnam, go on, a steady flow of / wounded are rushed into the under- / ground hospital bunker for emergency / treatment sufficient until removal to / a rear area hospital. Though more than / 1,000 men have been patched up and / evacuated, the quarters are continually / crowded, causing stretchers to be slung, / four high, from wall pegs and rope attach- / ed to the ceiling. A wounded soldier, / receiving transfusions, is tended to / by a flak-jacketed corpsman in the / hospital bunker of Khe Sanh. / (AP NEWSFEATURE PHOTO) / 6565-jb-3/8/68 stf-jtw sil204; lower center stamped in purple ink: RECEIVED EXAMINER / REFERENCE LIBRARY / MAR 27 1968

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary