Surrounded by Casualties

Surrounded by Casualties

United States. Navy; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Japan; War casualties--Photographs

The image shows a section of a battlefield, covered on one side with bushes. Two dead soldiers are in the foreground of the image, with a gun still constructed in front of them. Behind them, in the middleground, stands another soldier looking at the corpses in a posture suggesting exhaustion or defeat, holding what appears to be either a gun or a sword. There are other casualties behind him, and in the brush to his right. 53 is printed in black ink on the back of the photograph. 

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A section of a battleground with several dead soldiers on the ground, a gun still constructed in front of two of them. A surviving soldier stands, looking at the two casualties in front of him, his posture suggesting exhaustion.

circa 1945

34

4.5 x 3.5"

Photograph

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