Photos US Forces

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"Two battle weary Leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment take a break, rain and all, during Operation Bold Mariner. ", Vietnam January-February 1969

 

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Phuoc Tuy Province. April 1967. An M110 howitzer of the 1/83rd Medium Artillery Battery supporting troops of the 1st Australian Task Force (1ATF) at Nui Dat

 

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M-48 on Route 9, west of Khe Sanh, a 13 mile stretch of road that has become known as Ambush Alley because of the increased enemy attacks, on March 9, 1971.

 

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Special Mission Force (SMF) members Ferricks, Brown and Curtis (left to right) drink rice wine at a Montagnard party. The rice wine had been buried for 30 days in the same jar with a banana leaf covering the top. Pleiku 1972

 

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Vietnam War. March 1966. Sikorsky UH-34Ds from USS Princeton (LPH 5), offload men from 1st Battalion, 5th Marines during Operation Jackstay .

 

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1965. Army combat platoon leader Second Lieutenant John Libs (centre) of 2nd Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, surveys the situation with his men from the relative safety of a watery rice paddy as they prepare to advance on a Viet Cong sniper position. Libs and the rest of 2nd Platoon participated in the battle of Xa Cam My/Operation Abilene in April 1966, during which Charlie Company suffered 82% casualties.

 

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173rd Airborne is supported by helicopters during the Iron Triangle assault. The Iron Triangle was a strategic stronghold for the North Vietnamese and remained so until the war's end. 1965

 

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Guitar slung over his shoulder, a trooper of the United States 1st Cavalry walks ashore from a landing craft. More than 2,500 cavalrymen arrived in Vietnam, bringing the total of the Army's First Airmobile Division up to 16,000 men. 1965

 

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Riflemen from the 173rd Airborne Brigade charge toward Viet Cong positions, holding machine guns in a wooded area of War Zone D, 1967

Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade are engaged in a long crawl to the crest of Hill 875, a steep mound that in just four days of combat cost American forces some of their highest casualties of the war. Pushing inch-by-inch of sloping earth behind them, U.S. paratroopers seized most of the hill on Nov. 22. They were then faced with a North Vietnamese stronghold atop the peak and reports of two fresh regiments of NVA troops moving into the region. 1967

 

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Hairstylist service was a rarity at the embattled Marine bastion of Khe Sanh, so Marine PFC Robert DuBois of Brooklyn, New York, did the honors for a buddy and shaved the head of Cpl. Efrain Torres of New York outside their bunker, 1968

 

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U.S. soldiers, one wounded and being carried by a colleague, walking down Hill Timothy, 1968

 

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Navy inshore patrol craft (PCF) 43 cruises along a riverbank in the Republic of Vietnam during Operation Slingshot, 1969

 

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American military Chinook helicopters helped with the evacuation of Saigon in April 1975.

 

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A CIA employee (thought to be O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half-mile from the U.S. Embassy. The fall came two years after the Paris Peace accords, which saw the U.S. leave the conflict. This moment is also known as the "Liberation of Saigon." 1975

 

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A young medic from the 1st Infantry Division tries to save the lives of his buddies amid a brutal firefight on June 17, 1967. About 50 miles northeast of Saigon.

 

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Flares from planes light a field covered with the dead and wounded of the ambushed battalion of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in the Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, on November 18, 1965.

 

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A trooper of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Div. aims a flamethrower at the mouth of the cave in An Lao Valley in South Vietnam, on April 14, 1967.

 

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20-year-old Army Medic Thomas Cole of Richmond Virginia, who served with ‘A’ Co., 2nd Btn., 7th Cavalry Regt.,1st Cav. Div, on a muddy trench in An Thi, Central Highlands

The same boy from before, Thomas Cole writes a letter home while recovering from a head wound at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon on February 19, 1966.

 

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M-48 on Route 9, west of Khe Sanh, a 13-mile stretch of road that has become known as Ambush Alley because of the increased enemy attacks, on March 9, 1971.

 

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Marines of the 3rd Bn, 4th Marines, crouch in the cover of a pagoda entrance as their patrol moves through a village along the Ben Hai River, South Vietnam, on May 22, 1967.