The British photographer Don McCullin walked into Hue in February 1968 and made some of the most searing images of the war — Marines fighting through the shattered Citadel, the wounded, the dead, the thousand-yard stares. This set is drawn from that work: a weary Marine escorting a blindfolded, bound North Vietnamese prisoner out of the ruins, carrying both his own M16 and the captured man's AK-47. On the Marine's flak jacket someone has painted Alfred E. Neuman, MAD Magazine's gap-toothed mascot, with the words "What, me worry?" — the black humor of men who had every reason to. It is the war's human dimension in a single frame.

K&C sculpts the two figures as McCullin framed them: the prisoner blindfolded with a field dressing, hands bound, bloodied and in sandals, propelled forward by the Marine behind him — "M.E.P." stenciled on the helmet band, the Neuman patch on the flak jacket, an M16 in one hand and the enemy's AK-47 in the other. Read more about the photographers who shaped this K&C series in our feature on the men behind the lens. The vignette belongs beside the combat-cameraman figure "FMJ" Rafterman and the Marines cautiously advancing through the same Hue streets.

King & Country model VN181. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — a U.S. Marine and a bound North Vietnamese prisoner — on sculpted groundwork bases. Boxed.