Fifty Photographs: selections from SCUA collections

ARVN soldiers taking cover

Title

ARVN soldiers taking cover

Creator

Ashcraft, Barr G., 1940-2005

Date

1974

Extent

1 photograph

Description

Ashcraft, a UMass Amherst alum, worked as a photojournalist in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the early 1970s. As a stringer covering the Vietnam War, he found himself alarmingly close to combat. The accompanying label reads: "Taking cover. As Viet Cong open up on us from treeline in the distance when we approach the ARVN [Army of the Republic of Vietnam] and the photographer prepare to run for cover."

Collection:

Barr G. Ashcraft Photograph Collection (PH 007)

Identifier

muph007-b002-i025

Cite As:

ARVN soldiers taking cover. Photograph by Barr Ashcraft. Barr G. Ashcraft Photograph Collection (PH 007).