Graveyard Battle Scene

Graveyard Battle Scene

Bound volume

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Graveyard Battle Scene

Horst Faas/The Associated Press/News Photography


November 4, 1964
Gelatin silver print
28 x 35.5 cm.
Gift of Horst Faas
2002.0488.0005
Inscriptions (on printed label on page): Graveyard Battle Scene. Vietnamese
paracommandos are dropped from U.S. heliocopters on a graveyard near
the Delta town of Mo Cay during battle between a government battalion
and a large unit of Viet Cong soldiers that ried [sic] to overrun the
district capital. Troops were flown into the area to support the
infantry battalion after it suffered about 40 casualities.
AP Wirephoto by Horst Faas, November 4, 1964
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