Photos US Forces

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Vietnam. "Marines riding atop an M-48 tank cover their ears as the 90mm gun fires during a road sweep southwest of Phu Bai."

 

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Vietnam. 1965. Photo by Robert Burrows.

 

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A South Vietnamese soldier, punches the face of a suspected Viet Cong guerrilla during an operation in Quang Nam province, 10 miles southwest of Da Nang, March, 1965.

 

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A wounded infantryman of the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, smokes a cigarette as he kneels in the grass to shade the face of a wounded buddy from the scorching sun with a helmet, while awaiting evacuation after a three-hour battle in war zone D, 50 miles northeast of Saigon, which killed 31 Americans and wounded 113.

June 22, 1967.

Photo by Henri Huet

 

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North Vietnamese Army officer leads an attack on South Vietnamese forces.
Laos 1971.

 

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Soldier Larry Wayne Chaffin wearing a hand-lettered slogan on his helmet, June 1965. He was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at the Phuoc Vinh airfield.

Photo by Horst Faas.

 

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The Blues light infantry watches as a strike hit its target. B Troop, 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry during the Vietnam War in 1967.

 

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A Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon, on November 27, 1965.

 

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A U.S. Army Private walks past a burning Vietnamese village carrying an M60 machine gun.

 

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The second wave of combat helicopters of the 1st Air Cavalry Division fly over an RTO and his commander on an isolated landing zone during Operation Pershing.

 

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An RTO guides a Chinook delivering a sling load of materials and supplies at Fire Support Base Pershing, near Dau Tieng.

 

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Sept. 25, 1965, paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam

 

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Vietnam.
“We were under sniper fire when I took this picture,” said McCullin. “That’s why the marines couldn’t be very gentle with one of their buddies who’d just been wounded in the leg. They were dragging him to cover as fast as they could”

 

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Capt. Earle Yeamans, a dentist with the 1st Infantry Division, works on a soldier's teeth at a Big Red One defensive perimeter in Vietnam in October, 1968 as Spec. 5 Richard Ackley, left, helps out. In the background, troops waiting their turn offer protection against the dangers of a war zone.

 

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25 Dec 1969, Cu Chi, South Vietnam
Troops of the mechanized units of the 25th Infantry Division take a break during a Christmas cease fire, at Fire Base Evans, 40 miles west of Saigon.

 

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August 5, 1965, a group of U.S. Marines torching huts in the village of Cam Ne after receiving incoming fire from the village.

 

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Vietnam, 1965.

 

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A rifleman peers through bamboo, looking for a machine gun that had been firing on the platoon.

 

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The body of a slain soldier is carried to an evacuation helicopter by soldiers of the U.S. 1st cavalry division in the Ia Drang Valley early in the week of Nov. 15, 1965. The Air Cavalry Division has suffered the heaviest American losses of the Vietnam War during the battle in the Ia Drang area – a battle that began Nov.14.

 

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'In Philip Jones Griffiths’ classic photobook Vietnam Inc., published in 1971, he gives the picture, taken in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, a double-page spread. According to his caption, the woman’s husband, who was hiding in a tunnel along with other men from her village, had been killed a few moments earlier.In Philip Jones Griffiths’ classic photobook Vietnam Inc., published in 1971, he gives the picture, taken in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, a double-page spread. According to his caption, the woman’s husband, who was hiding in a tunnel along with other men from her village, had been killed a few moments earlier.'