Sergeant Robert William Kirby, former Washington Post and INS (International News Service) reporter, during basic training at the Marine Corps base at Parris Island, South Carolina. Sergeant Kirby is now serving as a fighting reporter in a combat area for the Division of Public Relations, U.S. Marine Corps

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Photographed by Alfred T. Palmer or Pat Terry.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1931.