Flushed from Grass
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Flushed from Grass

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Flushed from Grass

May 23, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.8 x 24.1 cm (7 x 9 1/2 in.)
Paper: 20.6 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0018
Inscriptions recto (in image): (FX2-May 23)--FLUSHED FROM GLASS--South Vietnamese soldier draws knife / behind communist Viet Cong guerilla he flushed from tall grass of canal / near Vinh Loi during sweep by patrols of Vietnamese Seventh division / flown in by U.S. Army helicopters May 18. It was reported there were /twenty-four Viet Cong captured, and nearly ninety killed. Picture made / by SP6 Henry Chang of Stars & Stripes. (APWIREPHOTO via radio from Tokyo) / (s50635rea) 1963
verso (blue ink): WP-general [crossed out in black ink] w[illeg.]r
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