Ready to Leave Cambodia
Photograph
Ready to Leave Cambodia
1970
Gelatin silver print
Image: 8 × 6 1/8 in. (20.3 × 15.6 cm)
Paper: 9 5/8 × 6 3/4 in. (24.5 × 17.1 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0019
Inscriptions Printed below image: (NY19-June 24) READY TO LEAVE CAMBODIA--A trooper of the \ 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, U.S. 1st Cavalry Division sits \ on his field gear waiting for a helicopter to fly him out of \ Cambodia's Firebase Speer to South Vietnam. In foreground is \ a helmet, pack, boots and rifle of another GI. The division is \ giving up Firebase Speer, northeast of the Fish Hook region and \ pulling U.S. Troops back to South Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto via \ radio from Saigon) (see AP AAA wire story) (pr40853godfrey) '70
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: MG-VNM-32
Stamped in red on verso, TR: JUN 27 1970
Inscribed in black crayon on verso, C: 3col \ 6 1/2 deep \ 12 [circled]
Inscribed in black marker on verso, BC: U.S. Army
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: READY TO LEAVE CAMB.
Typed on applied label on verso, BC: Creased
Inscribed in black marker on red applied label on verso, BC: 3
Printed in black on applied label on verso, BLC: 6x10 \ 632271
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: MG-VNM-32
Stamped in red on verso, TR: JUN 27 1970
Inscribed in black crayon on verso, C: 3col \ 6 1/2 deep \ 12 [circled]
Inscribed in black marker on verso, BC: U.S. Army
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BC: READY TO LEAVE CAMB.
Typed on applied label on verso, BC: Creased
Inscribed in black marker on red applied label on verso, BC: 3
Printed in black on applied label on verso, BLC: 6x10 \ 632271
