Title Work

Title No: 6511

Title: Bodies of three dead American soldiers lying in the sand on shoreline near half-sunken landing craft on Buna Beach after a Japanese ambush attack.

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Date: 31 Jan  1943 (Created)

Three Americans soldiers dead on Buna beach in Papua New Guinea. Taken by George Strock in 1943, this controversial image was printed full page in LIFE.  The caption stated: 'dead men have died in vain if live men refuse to look at him.' 
(Photo by George Strock//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.

Name As Subjects: Strock, George