Eyeing a Command
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Photograph
Eyeing a Command
September 18, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.7 x 21.8 cm (6 15/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 18 x 23 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0005
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D3919(NY7) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / EYEING A COMMAND / VIETNAMESE WOMEN, SOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN, / EYED A SOUTH VIETNAMESE MARINE OFFICER IN / THIS FASHION AS HE TOLD THEM TO STAY IN THE RUINS OF A SCHOOLHOUSE AND NOT TO / RETURN TO THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE BATTLE / WITH THE VIET CONG WAS OVER. THE CIVILIANS / HAD FLED THEIR VILLAGE OF THAI THONG, NORTHWEST OF TAY NINH, WHEN ALLIED PLANES / BOMBED IT. THEN THEY TRIED TO RUSH BACK TO / SAVE WHAT THEY COULD FROM THE FLAMING / RUINS BUT MARINES HELD THEM BACK BECAUSE / THEY WANTED TO SWEEP THE VILLAGE FIRST / AND DRIVE OUT THE VIET CONG. / PR/SH 915A 9/18/68 STF-HF 32 / NYSW NYT NATOBS ABC CBS NRN NRSL STAATS / TMC NSWK WW
(typed on attached sheet): D3919(NY7) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / EYEING A COMMAND / VIETNAMESE WOMEN, SOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN, / EYED A SOUTH VIETNAMESE MARINE OFFICER IN / THIS FASHION AS HE TOLD THEM TO STAY IN THE RUINS OF A SCHOOLHOUSE AND NOT TO / RETURN TO THEIR HOMES BEFORE THE BATTLE / WITH THE VIET CONG WAS OVER. THE CIVILIANS / HAD FLED THEIR VILLAGE OF THAI THONG, NORTHWEST OF TAY NINH, WHEN ALLIED PLANES / BOMBED IT. THEN THEY TRIED TO RUSH BACK TO / SAVE WHAT THEY COULD FROM THE FLAMING / RUINS BUT MARINES HELD THEM BACK BECAUSE / THEY WANTED TO SWEEP THE VILLAGE FIRST / AND DRIVE OUT THE VIET CONG. / PR/SH 915A 9/18/68 STF-HF 32 / NYSW NYT NATOBS ABC CBS NRN NRSL STAATS / TMC NSWK WW
