Lucky to be Alive
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Photograph
Lucky to be Alive
October 12, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 21.9 x 16.8 cm (8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Paper: 23 x 18 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0019
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D 4379 (NY2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / LUCKY TO BE ALIVE / BADLY INJURED AFTER THE HELICOPTER HE / WAS FLYING IN CRASHED IN AN OPEN FIELD NEAR / TAY NINH, A SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARATROOPER IS / PULLED FROM THE WRECKAGE BY AMERICAN SOLDIERS / THE U.S. ARMY HELICOPTER, CARRYING SEVEN ARVN / PARATROOPERS AND AN AMERICAN FOUR-MAN CREW, CRASHED AFTER IT LOST POWER AND FELL FROM / A HEIGHT OF 200 FEET. TWO VIETNAMESE AND / TWO AMERICANS WERE INJURED. / K/M 835A 10/12/68 STR 45 / NYWS NYT NATOBS CBS-2 ABC-2 NR NRDL HFT STAAT / LON RON GER PAR SS TOK BAIRES TMC NSSWK WW
(typed on attached sheet): D 4379 (NY2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / LUCKY TO BE ALIVE / BADLY INJURED AFTER THE HELICOPTER HE / WAS FLYING IN CRASHED IN AN OPEN FIELD NEAR / TAY NINH, A SOUTH VIETNAMESE PARATROOPER IS / PULLED FROM THE WRECKAGE BY AMERICAN SOLDIERS / THE U.S. ARMY HELICOPTER, CARRYING SEVEN ARVN / PARATROOPERS AND AN AMERICAN FOUR-MAN CREW, CRASHED AFTER IT LOST POWER AND FELL FROM / A HEIGHT OF 200 FEET. TWO VIETNAMESE AND / TWO AMERICANS WERE INJURED. / K/M 835A 10/12/68 STR 45 / NYWS NYT NATOBS CBS-2 ABC-2 NR NRDL HFT STAAT / LON RON GER PAR SS TOK BAIRES TMC NSSWK WW
