The Shade Of A Buddy's Arm
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Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
The Shade Of A Buddy's Arm
October 1944
Gelatin silver print
23.6 x 19.4 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "3569" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo"
"The Shade Of A Buddy's Arm" "Tenderly a grim-faced American soldier
shades a fallen buddy's eyes from the sun, as they await his transfer
to a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport off the bloody beach of
Leyte Island in the Philippines. Expressions of the two soldiers bare
a rage in their breasts and bodes ill for Jap snipers."
"In rewriting caption please mention 'Coast Guard'"
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official U.S. Coast Guard Photo"
"The Shade Of A Buddy's Arm" "Tenderly a grim-faced American soldier
shades a fallen buddy's eyes from the sun, as they await his transfer
to a Coast Guard-manned invasion transport off the bloody beach of
Leyte Island in the Philippines. Expressions of the two soldiers bare
a rage in their breasts and bodes ill for Jap snipers."
"In rewriting caption please mention 'Coast Guard'"
