Lifting Battle Weary Eyes to the Heavens

Some 60 years ago this week. A well-traveled paratrooper with good reason to wonder why. Official caption: 14 August 1966. SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle-weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day s battle