The Vietnam War As Seen By Its Fearless Photographers
May 02, 2023
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While the quagmire may have technically ended some time ago, in many veterans' and war photographer's hearts, the Vietnam War rages on.
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1965: In the jungle area of Ben Cat, U.S. paratroopers carry their weapons above water in the rain while they search for Viet Cong troops.![Jungle Mud](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/jungle-mud.jpg)
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1968: Armed South Vietnamese marines slog through jungle mud, Mekong Delta, South Vietna![Vietnam War AP Photographers Grieving](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/APVietnamGrievingWidow.jpg)
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A South Vietnamese woman grieves the loss of her deceased husband, who was discovered in a mass grave.Daily Mail
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A wounded paratrooper in agonizing pain awaits medical evacuation at the base camp of Shau Valley.Daily Mail
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"Home is where you dig" was the sign over a fighting bunker, 1968.
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1954: French paratroopers descend on Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements.Daniel Camus and Jean Péraud/Daily Mail
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1965: U.S. Army helicopters lay down cover fire over South Vietnamese troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border.Horst Faas/Daily Mail
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Combat at the Con Thien Base in 1968.![Chopper Down](https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/APVietnamChopperDown.jpg)
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1966: U.S. Marines south of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) after a night of fighting North Vietnamese troops. The supply chopper seen in the picture was shot down.Henri Huet/Daily Mail
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1965: American soldiers arriving at Red Beach at Da Nang.Peter Gregg/Daily Mail
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Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic South Vietnamese government. This was the first in a series of self-immolation by the monks.
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1971: Near Camp Eagle, an aerial view of a peace symbol probably made by U.S. troops with a bulldozer.
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1966: The body of a U.S. soldier killed in battle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter.Henri Huet/Daily Mail
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Picture released in 1972 by a North Vietnamese official agency with the caption: "Young women carry the ammunition to the front in Quang Tri province, south Vietnam."VAN BANG/AFP/Getty Images
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1972: Lightly-wounded civilians and troops attempt to push their way aboard a South Vietnamese evacuation helicopter.AP photo/Flickr/judgerock
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Marines of Company H walk through a punji-staked gully in 1966. Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St. Paul, Minnesota, with a 45 pound 90mm recoiless rif1968: Armed South Vietnamese marines slog through jungle mud, Mekong Delta, South Vietnam.
The Vietnam War As Seen By Its Fearless Photographers
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