Photos ARVN Images

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U.S. Army Special Forces soldier on patrol with an ARVN unit in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. October 1969

 

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Elephants on patrol in the Central Highlands, South Vietnam, 1962. Elephants were used by both sides in the war as transportation of men and matériel.

 

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December 1966. An M113A1 APC of an Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) unit travelling in convoy in Phuoc Tuy Province.

 

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ARVN soldiers with M-67 90mm recoilless rifle, M-14 rifles on Rte 7 in Cambodia near Krek on 30 October 1971

 

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M24 Chaffee in airport protection duties.

 

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Off-duty ARVN soldiers inspect a knocked out and abandoned NVA Type 63 in a street of An Loc

 

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South Vietnamese soldier throwing a right hook to a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla during an operation in Quang Nam province, southwest of Da Nang. 1965

 

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A soldier of the 83rd Battalion, 33rd ARVN Ranger Group in Saigon in the final days, Black April 1975.

 

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ARVN military vehicles being abandoned or destroyed on the road of Huế,1975

 

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Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into tree lines to cover the advance of Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, on March 29, 1965, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border

 

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Wounded and shocked civilian survivors of Dong Xoai crawl out of a fort bunker on June 6, 1965, where they survived the murderous ground fighting and air bombardments of the last two days

 

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Vietnamese National Army Paratroopers of the "3e BPVN" during heavy fighting in Banh-Hine-Siu and the village of Na Pho. January 1954

 

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Ranger packed with grenades on the streets of Quế Sơn district, Vietnam. 1972

 

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Paratroopers of the "5e BPVN" (Le 5e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens) on parade in Hanoi.14th of July 1954

 

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Paratroopers of the "5e BPVN" (Le 5e bataillon de parachutistes vietnamiens) firing mortars at Viet Minh positions. 1950's

 

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Paratrooper of the "3e BPVN" taking an injured comrade to safety. Banh-Hine-Siu and the village of Na Pho, January 1954

 

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Paratrooper of the "3e BPVN" escorting an injured Viet Minh prisoner, Banh-Hine-Siu and the village of Na Pho, January 1954

 

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Vietnamese National Army soldiers in combat with Binh Xuyen rebel forces. Saigon, April 29, 1955

 

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ARVN training with Quad Barrel Rocket Launchers M202 Flash (XM202)

M202 FLASH is an actual flamethrower rocket (not to be confused with the Russian thermobaric launchers they call flamethrowers). The rockets are 66mm, same as the M72 LAW, but instead of a HEAT warhead they pack a payload of ~600g of thickened pyrophoric agent. People often confuse that with napalm. TPA is a whole other flavour of horrible S**t though, that makes napalm look friendly by comparison. The main component in TPA is triethylaluminum, and that's some spicy stuff, igniting spontaneously in air and burning at about 1600°C. That's blended with polyisobutylene and hexane for slight stabilizing effects, and more to the point, to make the liquid TEA stick like napalm famously does.

 

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US Army helicopters deliver South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a North Vietnamese army camp eighteen miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, March 1965.