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Helicopter Hero Scott Alwin

Date: 1968
Description: Helicopter pilot Scott Alwin, a native of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, with his UH-1 ("Huey"). Alwin spent five tours of duty in Vietnam from 1967 to 1972, se...
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Hue after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Journalist Robert Shaplen, facing the camera, at a bombed bridge over the Perfume River at Hue, where crowds of pedestrians and cyclists were attempting to...
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Vietnamese Bomb Shelter

Date: 1968
Description: Vietnamese woman holding an infant emerging from a bomb shelter under the watchful eye of two South Vietnamese soldiers (ARVN). This incident was witnessed...
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: A crowd of pedestrians, trucks, and cyclists on a road waiting to go through an arch in a damaged building amid the post-Tet destruction in Hue.
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Refugees at a Red Cross aid station in Hue shortly after the Tet offensive left much of the city in ruins. This scene was witnessed by American journalist ...
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Bridge on the Perfume River

Date: 1968
Description: Pedestrians file single file across the make-shift repairs to the bridge over the Perfume River at Hue. The bridge was bombed by the Vietcong during the Te...
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Street Scene after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of refugees after the Tet Offensive, camped out front of their damaged homes. Although not identified, it is believed the image is a street s...
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After Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Pedestrians and an ARVN soldier on a bicycle crossing a bridge in the city of Hue after the Tet Offensive.
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Protest at Lake and State Streets

Date: 1968
Description: Composite photograph of an elevated view of an anti-Vietnam War protest at the intersection of Lake and State Streets looking east up State Street. A large...
Poster

Anti-Communist Poster

Date: 1968
Description: Poster depicting a Communist hammer and sickle symbol piercing a dove. Distributed by Young Americans for Freedom in support of war in Vietnam.

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