Posted on 06/07/2018 7:11:09 PM PDT by Borges
Under the helmets, the faces are young and tormented, stubbled and dirty, taut with the strain of battle. They sob over dead friends. They stare exhausted into the fog and rain. They crouch in a muddy foxhole. This goddamn cigarette could be the last.
There are no heroes in David Douglas Duncan’s images of war.
Dark and brooding, mostly black and white, they are the stills of a legendary combat photographer, an artist with a camera, who brought home to America the poignant lives of infantrymen and fleeing civilians caught up in World War II, the Korean conflict and the war in Vietnam.
“I felt no sense of mission as a combat photographer,” Mr. Duncan, who was wounded several times, told The New York Times in 2003. “I just felt maybe the guys out there deserved being photographed just the way they are, whether they are running scared, or showing courage, or diving into a hole, or talking and laughing. And I think I did bring a sense of dignity to the battlefield.”
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Man, I damn hate giving the NY Slimes a click point and traffic, but it’s a good read.
Yikes,I remember him-—didn’t know he was still around.
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They do great obits.
There is also a Wikipedia article on him.
And ever service man or soldier that wanted a smoke, more than earned every one of them.
Can’t say that today I don’t think.
RIP.
His picture of a marine sniper at Khe Sahn is on my computer. He was partial to the corps.
“THIS IS WAR”, his photo essay book on the Korean War is a real classic.
When my Dad was in a foxhole on Sugar Loaf Hill in the middle of the night, he wanted a cigarette but all of his matches were wet. He managed to light a cigarette from a flare which had landed nearby.
Fortunately he later quit smoking or he would not have lived as long as he did.
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