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Enrique

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This photo is one of the most famous of the WWII, and perhaps one of the most famous of all time. The author is Horace Bristol, one of the six official photographers of the navy, recruited in 1941 after having built his fame on the reports made with Steinbeck around the ruined peasants of the Grapes of Wrath.

The model of this photo has remained anonymous: as far as the circumstances are concerned, it is the campaign in New Guinea, in Rabaul Bay, aboard a rescue plane.

Bristol later said: "A call asked us to fetch an airman from the bay. The Japanese, on the island, were shooting at him, and when they saw us they started targeting us too. The man at the au was temporarily blinded, so one of the crew members undressed and jumped into the water to bring him back on board. With his boots and clothes he would not have swum very effectively. As soon as possible, we got back in the air. It wasn’t about waiting until everyone got dressed. We were being shot at and we just wanted to flee. The naked man resumed his position immediately behind the machine gun in the cockpit of the plane.“

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Teamplay, 2000 - BelAmi

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