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U.S. Special Forces

Date: 1961
Description: View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H...
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Smoking Rubble, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Smoking rubble in the village of Vin Quoi, Vietnam. Destruction caused by Viet Cong.
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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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Burning Rubble in Building

Date: 06 1962
Description: Interior of a wrecked building in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, after a Viet Cong attack. Plaster from the walls and pieces of the roof form a heap of charred rubble...
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Survivors and Soldiers in Field, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Soldiers stand in front of a group of survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The survivors are carrying bundles of belongings and a g...
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Survivors of Attack on Village

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women, children and elderly survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi standing in a field. In the background a group of men are hauling s...
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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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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar...
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Captive, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Captive held in a concrete room in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village. The woman is wearing all black, is barefoot an...
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Air Support Operations Center, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Soldier at work at a desk in an Air Support Operations Center, Da Nang, Vietnam. There is a large map on the wall, military radios, a clock and a military ...
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Rifle Training, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Women train with rifles in a village near the Laotion border in the mountain region of Vietnam. A group of about 25 women are lined up in two rows standing...
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River Crossing to Outpost

Date: 06 1962
Description: U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley and soldiers crossing a river in the delta region of Vietnam in a small boat to visit an outpost. A large building, a m...
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Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
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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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Children Playing in Water at Binh Hung

Date: 1961
Description: View of the village of Binh Hung, Vietnam. Two small children play in the water among several thatched-roofed houses. Ducks are swimming in the water.
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Viet Cong Prisoners at Binh Hung

Date: 1961
Description: Two Viet Cong prisoners seen through a window covered in barbed wire in a structure built of bamboo and grass.
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Vietnamese Villagers at Binh Hung

Date: 1964
Description: Men and young children in a roofed enclosure outside a dwelling near the village of Binh Hung, South Vietnam. Several of the children are plugging their ea...
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Vietnamese Soldiers Breaking Camp

Date: 1961
Description: Vietnamese soldiers breaking camp along a muddy road after a night of heavy rain. The shirtless man is battallion commander, Major Giai (?). Civilian vill...
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South Vietnamese Patrol

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers from the Sea Swallow Army wading along a canal on patrol near the village of Binh Hung. Grass buildings are in the background nea...

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