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Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...
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Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
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Scouts on Patrol, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers on patrol in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. One soldier is walking along a dirt road carrying a large automat...
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Damaged Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Building damaged by Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The pink building seems to have lost its roof and there is debris strewn about the yard. There are men...
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Soldiers and Residents, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack. There is a burned-out building in the background. A male resident is sitting on a downed fence ...
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Soldiers Smoking

Date: 06 1962
Description: Two soldiers under the command of U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley in the delta region of Vietnam sitting on sandbags smoking cigarettes. The soldiers ...
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Canal, Binh Hung

Date: 1962
Description: Canal in Binh Hung Vietnam with numerous small boats and a crowd of people walking alongside. In the background is a large cross and a number of large that...
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Vietnamese Children and American Soldiers

Date: 1962
Description: View through barbed wire fence of a group of about 35 school-aged Vietnamese children standing around two American soldiers in front of a large peach and w...
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Guard at Intersection

Date: 06 15 1965
Description: Guard at a restricted intersection of Henrique and Duarte streets at the border of the U.S. section of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
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Guantanamo, North East Gate

Date: 1959
Description: Night view of the northeast gate of the U.S. base at Guantanamo.
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Lebanese Soldier

Date: 1958
Description: Lebanese soldier cleaning his rifle. He is seated on a blanket on the ground in front of a lean-to attached to a stone wall over a small stone bunker.
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Blockade at Santo Domingo

Date: 1965
Description: View from rooftop of a blockaded street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, seen from a U.S. Marine position. A large group of civilians, mainly women, s...
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U.S. Navy Patrol at Guantanamo

Date: 11 1960
Description: View from side of road of a helicopter flying low over a hilly rural road with grass, wildflowers and trees at Guantanamo, Cuba. A chain link fence topped ...
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Chinese National Marines Training

Date: 1959
Description: Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in...
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Village of Binh Hung

Date: 1964
Description: View looking over barbed wire towards a helicopter flying over the village of Binh Hung, a base for the fighting operations for the South Vietnamese. Two c...
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Viet Cong Prisoner

Date: 11 1965
Description: Viet Cong prisoner seated with his legs bound and his hands on his head. He is encircled by barbed wire. Soldiers are behind him.

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