This annotated landscape photograph, marked with a hand-drawn arrow and a series of red ink notations along a distant ridgeline, was used to illustrate the terrain and direction of attack in the engagement that claimed the life of Army Infantry Sergeant Yonekura Toshiro in Shanxi Province, China, in 1939. Prepared for his grieving family, it exemplifies the deeply personal ways Japanese officers sought to convey the circumstances of a soldier's death. Project: 218280