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Laird in Vietnam

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, wearing a fatigue uniform, shaking hands with a military officer during a tour of Vietnam.
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Helicopter Interior with Civilians

Date: 06 1962
Description: Two civilian survivors of a Viet Cong attack on Vinh Quoi, Vietnam sitting inside an American military helicopter that arrived to offer aid to the village....
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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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Humanitarian Medical Treatment Mission, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Joint MEDICO/U.S. Army humanitarian medical treatment mission to a forward village near the Laoation border in the mountain region of Vietnam. A man in fat...
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Helicopter Evacuation of Wounded

Date: 1962
Description: U.S. helicopter evacuation of wounded Vietnamese fighter to hospital including treatment by U.S. service medics and corpsmen. A man with a bandaged head i...
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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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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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Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: A woman holding a baby stands in front of two dead bodies laid out for a funeral in a open-air, covered building. The men were killed during a Viet Cong at...
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Sweat Shed

Date: 1965
Description: Large group of soldiers with packs and gear in a hangar. More packs and gear are near numbered areas in the foreground.
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Wounded South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1961
Description: Soldier assisting a wounded South Vietnamese soldier.
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Vietnamese Soldier Smoking

Date: 1961
Description: Vietnamese soldier seated indoors on a chair smoking a cigarette. He holds a gun under his right arm. Other men sit behind him.
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Helicopter Reconnaissance Squad

Date: 1962
Description: Marine crew chief Nelson West and several South Vietnamese soldiers patrol an area near Vinh Quoi from a helicopter.
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Vietnamese Funeral

Date: 05 1962
Description: Funeral at Binh Hung, Vietnam for several members of the Vietnamese Sea Swallows battallion who were killed in combat against Viet Cong forces on May 29. U...

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