Home from Vietnam
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Home from Vietnam

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Photograph

Ray Mews

Maker
American, 1938–2001

Home from Vietnam

1966
Gelatin silver print, printed 1988
34.1 x 26.2 cm.
Gift of The Associated Press, 1988
Inscriptions verso-(stamped) "11 49"
(in pencil) "457"
TextThe crutch isn't needed as Lance Cpl. Perron Shinneman, who lost a leg to a vietcong mine in Vietnam is greeted in the rain at his home airport in Sioux Falls, S.D., on leave from Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

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