Category: The Black Star Collection
Photography agency: PLANET NEWS LTD.
Event Date: 1945-05-30
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.283345

Inscriptions:
Captions: Verso: AMERICAN TROOPS RETURN TO THE / UNITED STATES /The return of American troops / from Britain to the United States / has been speeded up to meet the / requirements of the war against / the Japanese. Skilled technicians / and special service personnel are / being flown across the Atlantic / with seriously wounded men, and seaborne contingents, including / casualities and men for discharge, are leaving from British ports. / PHOTO SHOWS: -- Genguey smiles at / Southampton, as a wounded / American soldier is carried / aboard a ship which is returning / to the United States with U.S. / troops. /W. Planet May 30 1945 Pn / Censor No. 416276Markings:Verso: AMERICAN TROOPS RETURN TO THE / UNITED STATES /The return of American troops / from Britain to the United States / has been speeded up to meet the / requirements of the war against / the Japanese. Skilled technicians / and special service personnel are / being flown across the Atlantic / with seriously wounded men, and seaborne contingents, including / casualities and men for discharge, are leaving from British ports. / PHOTO SHOWS: -- Genguey smiles at / Southampton, as a wounded / American soldier is carried / aboard a ship which is returning / to the United States with U.S. / troops. /W. Planet May 30 1945 Pn / Censor No. 416276

Tagasauris Keywords: 2 people; 2 people; Blanket; Day; Face; Full-Length Portrait; Group; Low angle View; Male; Negro; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Smile; Social issues; Soldier; The Wounded; Three-Quarter-Length Portrait; United Kingdom; United States; United States Armed Forces; United States Army; Unrest, conflicts and war; War; Wood; World War II; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: MILITARY CONFLICT / WWII
Retouching: N