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Picture is by Aldo Panzieri, 1969, "A soldier snorting dope" as title.

 

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May 16th 1965, at AB Bien Hoa. Ordnance being loaded onto a B-57 Canberra spontaneously detonated, creating a chain reaction that resulted in the destruction of 10 B-57s, 27 A-1 Skyraiders, and an F-8 Crusader, 34 deaths, and over 100 wounded.

34-year-old USAF Major Robert G. Bell --- who had been one of the 32 finalists for NASA Astronaut Group 1 in 1959 --- was among the dead.

The USAF, in their official history of the Vietnam War, stated that it was one of the "worst disasters in Air Force history".

 

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388th TFW F-105F Wild Weasel aircraft, flying from Korat RTAFB in 1972. Republic F-105F-1-RE Thunderchief 63-8265 17th WWS (wild weasel squadron)(JB) & Republic F-105F-1-RE Thunderchief 62-416 Det. 1, 561st TFS (WW) (U.S. Air Force

 

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US MP with ARVN MP

 

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Marine Lance Corporal Dalton Gunderson checking the area for Viet Cong snipers during Operation Virginia in 1966

 

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A renewed assault by the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment on the North Vietnamese Army holding Hill 484. October 1966.

 

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An unidentified Marine sniper in Vietnam. - By USMC Archives

 

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"A South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam." January 9, 1964

 

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An American soldier investigates an underground bunker during Operation Masher. Vietnam, 1966.