Caption on back reads: "Flame thrower man of K Company, 3rd Bn, 161 RCT, 25th Infantry Division turns his head away from the intense heat as he squirts the flame into a well fortified Japanese pillbox at the edge of Balete Pass where the 25th Infantry Division is meeting fierce enemy resistance on Luzon. Other infantrymen are shown covering him with rifles and a BAR."
Photograph appears (cropped) in TRIUMPH IN THE PHILIPPINES by Robert Ross Smith, with caption "Neutralizing the Enemy on Climb to Norton's Knob."