Enemy Casualty

Enemy Casualty

Photograph

Dickey Chapelle

Maker
American, 1918–1965

Enemy Casualty

War Without End?


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 5/16 in. (15.8 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0414
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (S. Vietnam) 11/62 26) ENEMY CASUALTY: South Vietnamese paratroopers light \ up after a successful skirmish with Vietcong guerillas. At thier \ feet lies a peasant-garbed Vietcong suspect killed in the fight- \ ing. One problem of this fratricidal war is to distinguish \ friend from foe. \ Credit: Dickey Chapelle © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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