We Remember

“Under the helmets, the faces are young and tormented, stubbled and dirty, taut with the strain of battle. They sob over dead friends. They stare exhausted into the fog and rain. They crouch in a muddy foxhole. This goddamn cigarette could be the last.

“There are no heroes in David Douglas Duncan’s images of war.

 

“‘I felt no sense of mission as a combat photographer,’ Mr. Duncan, who was wounded several times, told The New York Times in 2003. ‘I just felt maybe the guys out there deserved being photographed just the way they are, whether they are running scared, or showing courage, or diving into a hole, or talking and laughing. And I think I did bring a sense of dignity to the battlefield.’” 

—David Douglas Duncan (1916-2018), WWII Marine and photojournalist, in Robert D. McFadden, “David Douglas Duncan, 102, Who Photographed the Reality of War, Dies,” The New York Times, June 7, 2018.

• Editorial Comment: Honoring those who served, those who waited, those who lost and those who documented.

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