Letters, May 11, 1942

Not Ours

Sirs:

Somebody's face is going to be red, brother!

From LIFE, April 13, page 33, bottom cut: A group of marines are shown standing in a barbed-wire enclosure. The caption reads "Marines on Bataan line up for orders before wading into the jungle to clean out some Jap outposts."

(Now enter TIME magazine blushing.) . . . Identically the same photograph appears [TIME, April 13] but with another caption, which reads: "Marines have just cleaned out a Japanese hillside position!" . . .

FRANK GRAHAM Columbia, S.C.

Sirs:

After more than 40 years...

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