Nuclear Weapons Back Up West Berlin Defenders

Nuclear Weapons Back Up West Berlin Defenders

Photograph

Cornell Capa

Maker
American, b. Hungary, 1918–2008

Nuclear Weapons Back Up West Berlin Defenders

Berlin – Facing East


1958
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.3 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0060
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on recto, TRC: 19
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: n) 9/61 19) NUCLEAR WEAPONS BACK UP WEST BERLIN DEFENDERS. At Hahn \ airbase in West Germany, a U.S. sentry with his specially trained \ shepherd dog stands guard over Matador missiles which can house \ nuclear warheads. \ Credit: CORNELL CAPA © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS

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