Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: SULLY, Francois
Event Date: ca. 1954
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.283145

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Sully [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: 8//1//83; stamped: SERVICE PRESSE INFORMATION / Section Ciné-Photo / Reportage No. NVN 54//40 [number handwritten] / Photo No. 29 [number handwritten] / Date; handwritten: French soldiers at Dien Bien Phu. / Planes on airfield ( 2 C47 and one C119) / have been wrecked by Vietminh artillery / fire. / Mountains on background are occupied by / communist troops.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MILITARY CONFLICT / VIETNAM
Retouching: N