Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan

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Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Ready On the Firing Line: a Chinese Army squad prepares to fire in a small arms demonstration at the 196th Division of the Greater Peking Municipality. The vice commander of the division says its main task is to be militarily prepared to defend China and liberate Taiwan
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
DateAugust 14, 1972
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (19 × 22 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 5/16 in. (20.3 × 26.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.195
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Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper center edge (paper label with adhesive): [remnants of a paper label, mostly removed, no text]
Verso, lower left (stamp, red ink): [sideways] "AUG 1 5 1972"
Inscribed Recto, lower left (blue ink): [circle drawn around "Chinese" in typed passage at bottom of image]
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "HF-CH-17 / 2500"

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