Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1968-05
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.082072

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: SOUTH ViETNAM’S YOUNGEST HERO; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR / FEA[illeg.]E; typed label: YOUNGEST MAN IN UNIFORM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / South Vietnam’s youngest man in uniform, a / 13-year-old Ta Thai Manh (right) follows the / members of his proud Reconnaissance Company / of the 5th Vietnamese Ranger Group behind / tanks and armored personnel carriers in / their effort to wipe out the Viet Cong / forces holed up in the Saigon’s Cholon / area on May 7th. / PANA PHOTO 11th/may/68.

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