Title from caption on object: “Pound Viet Cong”

October 23, 1965

Kyoichi Sawada

Artist, Japanese, 1936 - 1970

United Press International

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.2 × 24.3 cm (7 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.560

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: L2805 / UPI; center UPI copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right stamped in black ink: FOR PERSONAL USE ONL[Y] / NOT FOR PUBLICATIO[N] [underlined]; by unknown hand, center right in graphite inverted: In [illegible]; bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: NXP 1492720 . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW YORK BUREAU / POUND VIET CONG / PLEIME, SOUTH VIET NAM: The defenders of the besieged / Pleime Special Forces camp watch a bomb burst October / 23rd as American fighter-bombers pound a Viet Cong / position a short distance away. The camp had been / under attack for a week by Communist guerillas, re- / inforced by Northern Vietnamese regulars. / CREDIT (UPI PHOTO BY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER KYOICHI SAWADA) / 10/27/65 gd

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