Not on the Menu

Not on the Menu

Photograph

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Not on the Menu

1966
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 7 9/16 in. (15.3 × 19.2 cm)
Paper: 6 7/16 × 8 13/16 in. (16.4 × 22.4 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0040
Inscriptions Printed left of image: (NY18-Jan.9) NOT ON THE MENU--Infantrymen who had just settled down for \ lunch scramble for cover from sniper fire today during the massive Allied \ assault--"Operation Crimp"--on the long-held Viet Cong jungle stronghold \ 25 miles northwest of Saigon. The Viet Cong popped up from concealed \ tunnels an opened fire on the 28th infantry [cut off]
Printed in black on applied label on verso, TLC: 6x8 \ 654303
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: HF-VNM-266
Stamped in red on verso, TL: JAN 11 1966
Inscribed in pencil on verso, R: AP2 [circled] \ 9 1/2 x 5 \ 115 EDIT \ LINE B. \ E78.5
Typed in black on red applied label on verso, BC: 5
Inscribed in blue ink on verso, R: U.S.A. in Vietnam
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