Wounded Rescued
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Wounded Rescued
1944
Gelatin silver print
27.3 x 34.3 cm.
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0576
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil): 63486 \ 96 \ Wounded Rescued - This is how heroes are made - and why impregnable Betio was taken after only 76 bloody hours. Two Marines braved the withering crossfire of the Japs to leave their trench and rescue a uddy under the very nose and well within aim on enemy snipers
