Comrades Three
Photograph
Comrades Three
Leathernecks and native boy share foxhole on Okinawa
ca. 1943
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0058
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto LC: print deeper
inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 118933
in negative on BC: USMC and emblem
printed in ink on verso: COMRADES THREE----The hardships of war have made comrades of these/ three "men" on Okinawa. Two, tired, Leathernecks of the Sixth/ Marine Division, which captured the capital, Naha, share their/ ponchoes with a small native boy. The lad, secure in his belief/ of being among friends, folded his hands as he sleeps with the/ "killers of women and children", so described by the enemy. The/ Marines are, Corporal Earl Brunitt, (left) of 719 Cedar Grove/ Court, Louisville, Ky., and Private Genare J. Nuzzi (right) of/ 548 Jersey Street, StatenIsland, N. Y./
Hdqtrs No. 118,933. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Sergeant William McBride
inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 118933
in negative on BC: USMC and emblem
printed in ink on verso: COMRADES THREE----The hardships of war have made comrades of these/ three "men" on Okinawa. Two, tired, Leathernecks of the Sixth/ Marine Division, which captured the capital, Naha, share their/ ponchoes with a small native boy. The lad, secure in his belief/ of being among friends, folded his hands as he sleeps with the/ "killers of women and children", so described by the enemy. The/ Marines are, Corporal Earl Brunitt, (left) of 719 Cedar Grove/ Court, Louisville, Ky., and Private Genare J. Nuzzi (right) of/ 548 Jersey Street, StatenIsland, N. Y./
Hdqtrs No. 118,933. WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE/
DIST LIST Stock OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Sergeant William McBride
