Monsoon Downpur
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Photograph
Monsoon Downpur
June 26, 1967
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.8 x 21.7 cm (6 5/8 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 17.9 x 22.9 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0034
Inscriptions verso (blue ink on attached sheet): New [illeg., crossed out in black ink]
(ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D 5178 (NY16) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / MONSOON DOWNPOUR / WITH THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN BREAKING, / A SOLDIER OF THE U.S. 1ST INFANTRY / DIVISION CARRIES A CASE OF MORTAR / AMMUNITION ACROSS A FLOODED SWAMPY / JUNGLE CLEARING AFTER A NIGHT OF / HEAVY MONSOON RAINS. HIS OUTFIT / WAS CAMPED FOR THE NIGHT IN WAR / ZONE D DURING OPERATION BILLINGS / IN SOUTH VIETNAM AT THE TIME. / DLR 1035A 6-26-67 STF-HH 50 / NYWS NR STAATS LON PAR SS MEX WW / ZIG ROM GER TYO BAIRES TMC NSWK
(ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D 5178 (NY16) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / MONSOON DOWNPOUR / WITH THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN BREAKING, / A SOLDIER OF THE U.S. 1ST INFANTRY / DIVISION CARRIES A CASE OF MORTAR / AMMUNITION ACROSS A FLOODED SWAMPY / JUNGLE CLEARING AFTER A NIGHT OF / HEAVY MONSOON RAINS. HIS OUTFIT / WAS CAMPED FOR THE NIGHT IN WAR / ZONE D DURING OPERATION BILLINGS / IN SOUTH VIETNAM AT THE TIME. / DLR 1035A 6-26-67 STF-HH 50 / NYWS NR STAATS LON PAR SS MEX WW / ZIG ROM GER TYO BAIRES TMC NSWK
