Tranquil Setting for War-Torn City
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Tranquil Setting for War-Torn City

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Tranquil Setting for War-Torn City

May 20, 1972
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.1 x 17.1 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
Paper: 25.3 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0003
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): B3105 (NY20) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / TRANQUIL SETTING FOR WAR-TORN CITY / SAMPANS DRIFT LAZILY ALONG THE PERFUME RIVER / AS THE SUN SINKS SLOWLY BEHIND MOUNTAIN / RANGE NEAR HUE, SOUTH VIETNAM. ELSEWHERE, SEVERAL HUNDRED NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS / LED BY TANKS LAUNCHED A DAWN COUNTERATTACK MAY 20 THAT BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED A SOUTH / VIETNAMESE DRIVE TO BREAK THE 44-DAY-OLD / STAGE OF AN LOC NORTH OF SAIGON. / CRB/LL 1145a 5/20/72 STF 49 / NYSW NSL HT SLA FRN TIME NSWK WW
(ink): E [?]
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