Barbed Wire Doesn't Keep War Out
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Photograph
Barbed Wire Doesn't Keep War Out
March 18, 1969
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.8 x 21.9 cm (6 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
Paper: 18 x 23.1 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0016
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D517(NY4) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / BARBED WIRE DOESN'T KEEP WAR OUT / A VIETNAMESE WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN LOOK FROM / BEHIND BARBED WIRE OF A COVENMENT COMPOUND / FOR VIET CONG SYMPATHIZERS AND SUSPECTS IN / THE DISTRICT TOWN OF DIEN BAN, 12 MILES SOUTH OF DA NANG. THE NIGHT BEFORE THIS PICTURE WAS / TAKEN, AN ADJOINING COMPUND WAS BLASTED APART / BY FIVE MORTAR ROUNDS DURING AN ATTACK, AND / SIX INMATES WERE KILLED AN ANOTHER 18 / WOUNDED. / HMB/SH 915A 3/18/69 STF 51 / NYSW NYT NATOBS ABC CBS NRSL STATS LON PAR SS / ROM GER TOK BAIRES PR DET700 TMC NSWK WW
(typed on attached sheet): D517(NY4) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / BARBED WIRE DOESN'T KEEP WAR OUT / A VIETNAMESE WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN LOOK FROM / BEHIND BARBED WIRE OF A COVENMENT COMPOUND / FOR VIET CONG SYMPATHIZERS AND SUSPECTS IN / THE DISTRICT TOWN OF DIEN BAN, 12 MILES SOUTH OF DA NANG. THE NIGHT BEFORE THIS PICTURE WAS / TAKEN, AN ADJOINING COMPUND WAS BLASTED APART / BY FIVE MORTAR ROUNDS DURING AN ATTACK, AND / SIX INMATES WERE KILLED AN ANOTHER 18 / WOUNDED. / HMB/SH 915A 3/18/69 STF 51 / NYSW NYT NATOBS ABC CBS NRSL STATS LON PAR SS / ROM GER TOK BAIRES PR DET700 TMC NSWK WW
