This strikingly handsome heroic image was taken by Horace Bristol, while he was covering the Pacific theater in World War II. This naked GI is photographed while standing guard by his gun, on a U.S. seaplane, during a rescue mission. Here is Bristol's story of this photo:
“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”
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