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Dead On the Beach, Papua New Guinea (September 1943)
When LIFE ran this stark, haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943, the magazine felt compelled to ask in an adjacent full-page editorial, “Why print this picture, anyway, of three American boys dead upon an alien shore?” Among the reasons: “words are never enough . . . words do not exist to make us see, or know, or feel what it is like, what actually happens.” But there was more to it than that; LIFE was actually publishing in concert with government wishes. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was convinced that Americans had grown too complacent about the war, so he lifted the ban on images depicting U.S. casualties. Strock’s picture and others that followed in LIFE and elsewhere had the desired effect. The public, shocked by combat’s grim realities, was instilled with yet greater resolve to win the war.  ·
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10-26-2013, 05:42 PM
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Re: Dead On the Beach, Papua New Guinea (September 1943)
These guys hurt my feelings. What do you think killed them. It looks like they made it to shore.  |
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10-26-2013, 05:47 PM
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Re: Dead On the Beach, Papua New Guinea (September 1943)
What killed them? How about Japanese gunfire?  |
