Tallest Man in the Platoon
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Tallest Man in the Platoon

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Tallest Man in the Platoon

July 5, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.7 x 16.7 cm (8 9/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Paper: 23 x 18 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0002
Inscriptions verso (typed on attached sheet): D 8322 (NY4) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / TALLEST MAN IN THE PLATOON / BEING THE TALLEST MAN IN THE PLATOON / HAS MIXED ADVANTAGES, ESPECIALLY WHILE / INCHING YOUR WAY ACROSS A MUDDY STREAM / SOUTH OF SAIGON. YOU MAY NOT GET AS WET / AS OTHERS, BUT BEFORE YOU WADE IN EVERYONE / HANDS YOU CIGARETTES, TOBACCO POUCHES, PAPERBACK BOOKS, AND OTHER VALUABLES TO / KEEP DRY IN YOUR HELMET LINER. IT CAN / MAKE FOR ROUGH GOING WHEN YOU MUST USE / ONE HAND ON THE TAUTLY HELD ROPE AND THE / OTHER TO KEEP THINGS DRY. / K/M 750A 7/5/68 STF-JH 85 / NYWS NYT NATOBS CBS-2 ABC-2 NR NRSL STAATS / LON ROM GER PAR SS SA-30 MEX PR TMC NSWK WW
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