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Survivors of Attack on Village

Date: 06 1962
Description: Survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi stand in a grassy field. The group is mostly women holding children and standing with belonging...
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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh...
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Machine Gun in Helicopter Over Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Silhouette of a machine gun in an Army helicopter and a scenic view of the mountain region in Vietnam below. Green mountains rise next to developed country...
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Funeral, Binh Hung

Date: 06 1962
Description: Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo...
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Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...
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Helicopters over Rice Paddies

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of four U.S. Marine helicopters banking over an expanse of rice paddies in Vietnam. Fluffy white clouds fill the sky.
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Army Helicopter over Countryside

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aerial view of old U.S. Army model H-21 helicopter, assigned to help Vietnamese forces fight the Viet Cong in the mountain region of Vietnam. The patchwork...
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Vietnamese Assault on Village

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldiers exiting from U.S. Army helicopter and running across a field with guns drawn to assault a village suspected of harboring Viet Cong in t...
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Capture of Suspected Viet Cong

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
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Vietnamese Soldier in Helicopter

Date: 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldier in a helicopter, holding a rifle and looking out the open door at the countryside of Vietnam.
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Vietnamese Rangers with Blindfolded Prisoner

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers escort a newly captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong down a gravel road in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietnam. The prisoner has ...
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Woman and Child on Footbridge

Date: 1962
Description: A woman carrying a child wrapped in a cloth crosses a log footbridge over a canal in the countryside in Vietnam. A boy is standing in the background and th...
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Boy with Camel Hauling Grain

Date: 07 1952
Description: Boy using a halter to lead a camel carrying a large load of grain on its back, in the vicinity of Ardebil in the Azerbijan province of Iran.
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Dickey Chapelle with Donkey

Date: 1945
Description: Dickey Chapelle wearing a heavy coat and kneeling to feed hay to a donkey next to a cart on a street in a city in Geurande, France. She has a camera around...
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VN Ahn Edek Operation Quiet Fire

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers pause during a speed march through a rice field.
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Prisoner Precedes His Captors

Date: 1962
Description: A man caught with Communist propaganda is taken, with his arms bound, to a waiting helicopter. The soldiers who captured him walk behind with weapons raise...
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Hungarians Crossing into Austria

Date: 11 28 1956
Description: Hungarian families crossing snowy grainfields into Austria near the village of Andau. They had walked at least ten miles over this terrain in near zero-deg...
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Refugees Crossing Over

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Description: Refugees crossing over into Hungary.

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