Instant of Impact
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Photograph
Instant of Impact
November 20, 1972
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17 x 21.7 cm (6 11/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 18.1 x 22.9 cm (7 1/8 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0013
Inscriptions verso (ink): E
(ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): B5338 [?] NY 17 / ASSOCIIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / INSTANT OF IMPACT / UNAWARE OF INCOMING ENEMY ROUND, A SOUTH / VIETNAMESE PHOTOGRAPHER MADE THIS PICTURE / OF A SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPER DUG IN AT / HAI VAN, SOUTH OF HUE. CAMERA CAUGHT / THE SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION BEFORE THE SOL- / DIER HAD TIME TO REACT. INCIDENT OCCURRED / DURING ONE OF MANY CONTINUING SMALL SCALE / FIRE FIGHTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, DESPITE TALK / OF A FORTHCOMING CEASEFIRE. / RGT/HMB 11/20/72 1730 STR/CHUONG 44 / NYWS LON PAR MO ROM GER TOK BAT PR / TME NSWK WW
(ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): B5338 [?] NY 17 / ASSOCIIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / INSTANT OF IMPACT / UNAWARE OF INCOMING ENEMY ROUND, A SOUTH / VIETNAMESE PHOTOGRAPHER MADE THIS PICTURE / OF A SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPER DUG IN AT / HAI VAN, SOUTH OF HUE. CAMERA CAUGHT / THE SUBSEQUENT EXPLOSION BEFORE THE SOL- / DIER HAD TIME TO REACT. INCIDENT OCCURRED / DURING ONE OF MANY CONTINUING SMALL SCALE / FIRE FIGHTS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, DESPITE TALK / OF A FORTHCOMING CEASEFIRE. / RGT/HMB 11/20/72 1730 STR/CHUONG 44 / NYWS LON PAR MO ROM GER TOK BAT PR / TME NSWK WW
