Neck Deep
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Neck Deep

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Neck Deep

July 29, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.8 x 16.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Paper: 23.1 x 17.9 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0001
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D9564 (NY5) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / NECK DEEP / A U.S. INFANTRYMAN KEEPS HIS HEAD AND M16 / RIFLE ABOVE WATER AS HE CROSSES A CANAL / SOUTHWEST OF SAIGON. THE SOLDIER, A MEMBER / OF THE 199TH BRIGADE, WAS SEACHING FOR / VIET CONG INFILTRATORS BELIEVED ON THEIR / WAY TO THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE CAPITAL. / RB/SH 8A 7/29/68 STF 34 / NYSW NYT NATOBS FLS ABC CBS NRN NRSL / STAATS TOK BAIRES TMC NSWK WW
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