At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead

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At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateDecember 9, 1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto with retouching
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 8 3/8 in. (20.6 × 21.3 cm) Image: 6 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (17.5 × 21 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.131
Not on view
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Verso, center (purple stamp): "[Return to Library]"
Verso, center (red stamp): "[NOTICE/ (illegible)/ ASSOCIATED (illegible) WIRE(illegible)]"
Verso, center: TH DEC 9 1965 IAT 2 (pasted newspaper clipping)
Verso, center: "At a memorial service for comrades killed earlier this/ week in a fierce battle at the Michelin rubber plantation/ in South Vietnam, two soldiers of the United States 1st/ infantry division held their weapons as they prayed for the dead." (pasted newspaper clipping)

Inscribed Recto, bottom left corner: "19/132 88"
Verso, center top: "Met Pix Page / 5. (crossed out) x 7 1/2" deep / Service"
Verso, top right corner: "87.8E (crossed out) / 86.7E (crossed out) / 96.4 E"
Verso, bottom left corner: "HF-VNM-155/ 2500"
Verso, bottom left: "M doubles / (Vietnam War U.S. Armed Forces)"
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Struggle Against Chopper Blast: struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from Botors of helicopter which landed them in Jungle clearing 70 miles North of Saigon on May 3, 1966. They moved on Viet Cong supply bases along the Rach Beng River, the border between South Vietnam and Cambodia, and seized hundreds of tons of equipment
Horst Faas
Date: May 3, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.134
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Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
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Horst Faas
Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.126
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Horst Faas
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Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.128
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Bill Owens
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Unknown artist, American
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Medium: Vintage Associate Press wirephoto
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Micha Bar-Am
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Photo by John Bentham.
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Leonard Freed
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Danny Lyon
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Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Unknown artist
Date: April 1968
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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René Zuber
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.120
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Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
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