Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965

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Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Artist/Maker
DateAugust 20, 1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/8 × 8 5/8 in. (20.6 × 21.9 cm) Image: 6 3/4 × 8 in. (17.1 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.292
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Recto, center right: red vertical line
Verso, top left corner (stamped): "[Published / August 20 1965 / Boston Herald]"
Verso, center on angle: "[(illegible) United Press Wirephoto / Reg US Patent Office]"
Recto, center, (paper adhered to back): "[Home Defense Specialist is this member of / South Vietnam's Popular Forces, a group that / fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. / Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire.]"
Inscribed Recto, center right: "Friday / 2 Cols / +VIet"
Recto, lower left corner: "ANON-VNM-140" and "800"
Recto, top left corner: "11/7"
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