File:Thuong Duc, Vietnam - A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation at the A-109 Special Forces Detachment in Thuong - NARA - 531447.jpg

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Thuong Duc, Vietnam....A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation at the A-109 Special Forces Detachment in Thuong Duc, 25 km west of Da Nang.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.[1] Restored by Adam Cuerden
Title
Thuong Duc, Vietnam....A Viet Cong prisoner awaits interrogation at the A-109 Special Forces Detachment in Thuong Duc, 25 km west of Da Nang.
Description
  • General notes: Title from archive, probably misleading: This is widely agreed to be an image of torture.
Date Taken on 23 January 1967
institution QS:P195,Q38945047
Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S)
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This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531447.

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  • Record group: Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985 (National Archives Identifier: 440)
  • Series: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954 (National Archives Identifier: 530707)
  • NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-SC-636742
  • 111-SC-636742
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  1. ↑ A previous version of the file description claimed PFC David Epstein, but I can't find a source for that that isn't using the older crop from the previous version of this photo..

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Captured Viet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in a stress position by American forces during the Vietnam War, 1967

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torture

Vietnam War

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war crime

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public domain

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determination method or standard: work of the federal government of the United States

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23 January 1967

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