Prisoner of War

Prisoner of War

Bound volume

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Prisoner of War

Horst Faas/The Associated Press/News Photography


March 14, 1964
Gelatin silver print
35.3 x 28 cm.
Gift of Horst Faas
2002.0488.0016
Inscriptions (on printed label on page): Prisoner of War. Communist Viet Cong
guerrilla peers under guard's weapon through barbed wire in prisoners'
compound at Cai Cai South Vietnam, near Cambodian border. Seventeen of
the Viet Cong were killed and about 300 were captured by South
Vietnamese forces March 14, 1964
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