Photograph
Dead Viet Cong

Body of a Viet Cong sympathizer who had been painting anti-government propaganda banners to hang in a South Vietnamese border village. Some of the banners are displayed in the foreground. Two men are standing over him. In the background is a canal. |
Image ID: | 115453 |
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Creation Date: | circa 1961 |
Creator Name: | Chapelle, Dickey |
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Collection Name: | Dickey Chapelle papers, 1933-1967 |
Genre: | Photograph |
Original Format Type: | negative, original |
Original Format Number: | PH 3301L.100-99, frame 5 |
Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
Dickey Chapelle's caption, "In the marketsquare at Tan Hung Tay, a few miles up-canal from Binh Hung, the local Sea Swallow company (composed mostly of montagnard troops) displays the body of this enemy dead shot as he was preparing to hang these anti-American posters." |
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Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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