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'Ole Wise One'
One reader from Illinois wrote to the editors of LIFE:
“Your picture of the week is a terrible thing, but I’m glad there is one American magazine that had the courage to print it.”
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“Your picture of the week is a terrible thing, but I’m glad there is one American magazine that had the courage to print it.”
Three Dead Soldiers
More specifically, three dead American soldiers. On the beach at Buna, New Guinea, in the Pacific. It was the most controversial - and powerful - photograph published in America during World War Two. When folks back home opened up their September 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine they saw up clos...
