Cat Patrol
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Photograph
Cat Patrol
December 23, 1971
Gelatin silver print
Image: 24.4 x 16.9 cm (9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Paper: 25.5 x 17.9 cm (10 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0032
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): B6322 (NY2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CAT PATROL / A GI OF THE 1ST AIR CAVALRY DIVISION / TENDS TO HIS KITTEN WHOSE HOME IS THE / POCKET OF HIS FATIQUE SHIRT. THE / GI'S UNIT WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE THE / BASE ON A ROUTINE SEQURITY PATROL / FROM FIREBASE MACE. THE 1ST CAV, / WHICH HAS WITHDRAWN TWO DRIGADES, IS / THE ONLY U.S. COMBAT UNIT IN THE AREA / AROUND SAIGON. / RCB/LSK 9A 12/23/71 STR/TERRY 49 / NYWS NSL STA ET LON PAR S&S MEX ROM GER TOK BAI PR TME NSWK WW
(typed on attached sheet): B6322 (NY2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / CAT PATROL / A GI OF THE 1ST AIR CAVALRY DIVISION / TENDS TO HIS KITTEN WHOSE HOME IS THE / POCKET OF HIS FATIQUE SHIRT. THE / GI'S UNIT WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE THE / BASE ON A ROUTINE SEQURITY PATROL / FROM FIREBASE MACE. THE 1ST CAV, / WHICH HAS WITHDRAWN TWO DRIGADES, IS / THE ONLY U.S. COMBAT UNIT IN THE AREA / AROUND SAIGON. / RCB/LSK 9A 12/23/71 STR/TERRY 49 / NYWS NSL STA ET LON PAR S&S MEX ROM GER TOK BAI PR TME NSWK WW
