Inscription
on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO / D-5834 PLEASE CREDIT / (For use Sunday, July 14, with / Hugh Mulligan's Saigon APN Story / on The Face of Charlie) / SOLDIER'S SURGERY / To the Viet Cong political cadre, / any shortcomings of their men can be / improved through removing "negative / and erroneous thoughts" which lead to / possible defeats. Exorting [sic] the wounded / and sick in hospitals, they overlook / natural causes and attribute illness / and inability to perform as "ideological / unawareness" to be cured "through in- / fluencing morale rather than giving out / medicine."; lower center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: (AP NEWSFEATURES PHOTO) / 6853-jb-6/27/68 sai-stf sil1208 / EDITOR'S NOTE: This photo was captured / in War Zones D and C in the / jungles northwest of Saigon; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: JUL 16 1968; by unknown hand, lower right in black ink perpendicular: Vietnam: Viet Cong / 1968
Provenance
Herbert Thomas [?]; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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