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Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Marine Brigade take overwatch positions on the Phan Thanh Giản bridge during Operation Quyet Thang in an effort to reestablish control over the areas immediately around Saigon following the aftermath of Phase I Tet Offensive; South Vietnam, March or April of 1968

 

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South Vietnamese Army personnel escort a suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) through the streets of Saigon captured during the Tet Offensive. Moments later the same person would be executed in front of the Associated Press field team; South Vietnam, February 1st 1968

Nguyễn Văn Lém (1931 or 1932 – 1 February 1968), often referred to as Bảy Lốp, was a member of the Viet Cong. He was summarily executed in Saigon during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, when Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive surprise attack.

He was brought to Brigadier General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan who then executed him. The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The photo and film became two famous images in contemporary American journalism.

Lém was captured near the Ấn Quang Pagoda on 1 February 1968, during the Tet Offensive. He was brought to Brigadier General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Chief of the Republic of Vietnam National Police at 252 Ngô Gia Tự Street, District 10 near the modern day Chùa Trấn Quốc temple. Loan summarily executed Lém using his (Loan's) sidearm, a .38 Special Smith & Wesson Bodyguard revolver. Lem was 36 years old at the time of his death.

Witnessing the event was Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams and NBC News television cameraman Vo Suu.

Max Hastings, writing in 2018, noted that Lém was in civilian clothes and was alleged to have just cut the throats of South Vietnamese Lt Col Nguyen Tuan, his wife, their six children and the officer’s 80-year-old mother.

 

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South Vietnamese troops tend to wounded people as bodies line a Saigon street during the Tet Offensive in early 1968. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)

The bodies of civilians and Viet Cong litter the street after bitter fighting in the early days of the Tet Offensive, in the northern section in Saigon, South Vietnam, Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo)

 

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In this Feb. 6, 1968 photo, First Lt. Gary D. Jackson of Dayton, Ohio, carries a wounded South Vietnamese Ranger to an ambulance after a brief but intense battle with the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive near the National Sports Stadium in the Cholon section of Saigon. Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam. The campaign, one of the largest of the Vietnam War, led to intense fighting and heavy casualties in cities and towns across the South. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)

A soldier walks among dirt and debris of battle at the ornate Imperial Palace in the Citadel of Hue during the Tet Offensive, February 1968. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)

 

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South Vietnamese Rangers and police fire automatic weapons at trucks and people in the streets of Cholon, the Chinese sector of Saigon, during the Tet Offensive, Feb. 7, 1968. The street barricades had been set up by Viet Cong guerrillas. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)

In this Feb. 19, 1968 photo, a South Vietnamese soldier fires a machine gun into burning buildings in northeastern Saigon, Vietnam, where Viet Cong forces occupied several city blocks during the Tet Offensive. Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam. The campaign, one of the largest of the Vietnam War, led to intense fighting and heavy casualties in cities and towns across the South. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc)

 

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The bodies of some of the seven blindfolded people executed by the Viet Cong lie near gas pumps in the Cholon section of Saigon during the Tet Offensive on Feb. 9, 1968. The area had not yet been secured to recover the bodies. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)

 

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A bayonet-wielding South Vietnamese paratrooper threatens a captured Việt Cộng suspect during an interrogation• All photographs by Larry Burrow

A South Vietnamese soldier escorts a captured man and boy suspected of being Việt Cộng, having just flushed them out of a paddy field where they were hiding

 

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1968
A South Vietnamese soldier crouches beside a badly bleeding woman while awaiting medical aid during an attack by the Việt Cộng

1971
Wounded South Vietnamese soldiers are evacuated during Operation Lam Son 719 in Laos

 

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South Vietnamese soldiers inspect destruction in what was then Saigon's Cholon section, after the Mini-Tet Offensive of May 1968.
Photograph: Henri Huet/AP

Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) armed with US supplied M2 carbines and M16 rifles lay on top of a roof overlooking the streets of Saigon during the Tet Offensive; southern Vietnam, May of 1968

 

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South Vietnam. April 1970. Wounded Vietnamese soldiers are winched to safety from the jungle, 70 feet below, by a 'Dustoff' (medical evacuation helicopter). Warrant Officer Class 2 Ron Roney of Launceston, Tas, the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) medical adviser in Quang Tri, frequently accompanied the US 'Dustoffs' for the trip back to the city and hospitalisation.

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C325343

 

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ARVN Airborne paratroopers fight Viet Cong guerrillas in the streets of Saigon during the Tet Offensive, Feb 1968.

 

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ARVN soldiers interrogate Viet Cong suspects captured in the bushes with a Mosin-Nagant rifle at La Ghi, Republic of Vietnam, August 25, 1965.

 

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ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam). A scout keeps watch while a mortar is assembled near a secure perimeter. Da Nang, Vietnam, November 1963. National Archives.

 

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Northwest of Saigon, Vietnamese Airborne Rangers prepare to attack a Viet Cong supply base as an H-21 Helicopter hovers nearby. U.S.Information Agency.

 

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U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Jerry Fletcher has his parachute riggings checked by Master Sergeant Van Kinh before his first jump from the 34 ft training tower at the Vietnamese Airborne Training School in 1969. National Archives.

 

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Duc My, South Vietnam. August 1971. Having learnt the ropes of a rappelling tower at the Ranger Training Centre at Duc My, 300 miles north-east of Saigon, Vietnamese Rangers further their training with practice insertions and extractions from a helicopter. Advising with the training of the Rangers are two members of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV).

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C37056

 

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Ngày Quân Lực 19/6/1966

19 Jun 1966, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu during a military review celebrating the first anniversary of the Ky government. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

 

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Ngày Quân Lực 19/6/1966

19 Jun 1966, Saigon, South Vietnam --- Premier Nguyen Cao Ky during a military review celebrating the first anniversary of the Ky government. Ky used the occasion to urge the nation to forget the political troubles of the past few months, to help him in building a democracy and in the fight against Communism. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

 

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Ngày Quân Lực 19/6/1966

19 Jun 1966, Saigon, South Vietnam --- General Nguyen Huu Co, Minister of Defense, during a military review celebrating the first anniversary of the Ky government, June 19th. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

 

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Republic of Vietnam Army Day 19/6/1966.