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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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FLN Captures Traitors

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front member captures an Algerian traitor who helped the French. The FLN member, wearing grass on his hat and shirt as camoufl...
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Algerian Traitor

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian traitor who claimed to have killed many Algerian women and children is sitting handcuffed by a rock wall, awaiting trial by the National Libera...
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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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Captured Prisoner and Vietnamese Soldiers

Date: 1962
Description: Small group of Vietnamese soldiers stand with a recently captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong on a path in the woods in Vietnam. One soldier is u...
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Vietnamese Soldiers Question Prisoner

Date: 1962
Description: A small group of Vietnamese soldiers question a prisoner in a dry and rocky field in Vietnam. The soldiers are standing or crouching very close to the boun...
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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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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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Interrogating Prisoner

Date: 1961
Description: Vietnamese soldier interrogating a prisoner. The prisoner is describing a route of safe passage through the jungle and informing the 1st Vietnamese Marine ...
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Interrogating Viet Cong Prisoner

Date: 1962
Description: South Vietnamese soldier uses a handgun to threaten a Viet Cong prisoner who is laying on the ground among foliage. Other men watch in the background.
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Viet Cong Prisoners at Binh Hung

Date: 1962
Description: Group of Viet Cong held prisoner by South Vietnamese soldiers. The group is seated on the ground among foliage with mock rifles in the foreground. Soldiers...
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Viet Cong Prisoners Carrying Body

Date: 1961
Description: Two Viet Cong prisoners carry the body of a recently killed South Vietnamese paratrooper, wrapped in canvas and tied to a pole. The prisoners are supervise...
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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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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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