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Saturday, August 31, 2019


Thanks to Larry's generosity, I have this George Strock photo of two soldiers washing in a 
shell hole near Buna, New Guinea.  Strock's most famous Buna photo was one of 
several dead American soldiers on a beach.  It took a year of struggling with censors and the invervention of President Roosevelt himself to get that one published, but it actually became a powerful impetus to the war effort.  All of today's images are from the LIFE Archive.

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  1. Jerry, je te remercie pour ces photos, un brillant témoignage de notre passé!!! Je n'imaginais pas que ce genre de photo avaient été publiée dans Time Magazine!!!
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    Jerry, thank you for these photos, a brilliant testimony of our past !!! I did not imagine that this kind of photo had been published in Time Magazine !!!

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    1. You're welcome, Albert. Not all the pictures in the LIFE Archive were published, though. Many times the photographers only used a small proportion of all the photos taken for a story, and the ones they used were often cropped or edited.

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  2. There's a 3rd naked guy in the background on the beach, and maybe more in another shell hole on the left.

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