From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog

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Link: From the Archive: Not New, Never Easy – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

In two years of global warfare, America had yet to see almost any pictures of dead Americans.

Then, in September 1943, an issue of Life magazine arrived in people’s homes and at their corner newsstands. It forced them to confront a stark, full-page picture by George Strock that showed three American servicemen sprawled on Buna Beach in New Guinea; two face down, one supine; their lifelessness unmistakable even in a still photograph.