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Helicopter Power

Date: 02 1966
Description: Arriving at a forward area, a U.S. Air Force CH-30 helicopter carrying a 105mm howitzer is directed in for a landing. The artillery piece, which was in a r...
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Vietnamese Training

Date: 06 1962
Description: Training exercise for South Vietnamese soldiers in helicopter deployment. This photograph of the early stages of American involvement in the war in Vietna...
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Marines at Soc Trang

Date: 06 1962
Description: Marines arriving at Soc Trang on a C-130 Hercules transport carrier. Soc Trang was an abandoned landing strip built by the Japanese during World War II. ...
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Inside Helicopter "Manhunt"

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Description: This photograph labeled only as "Manhunt" by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle shows the interior of a helicopter used during the early stages of U.S....
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Vietnam Helicopter Mission

Date: 06 1962
Description: A photograph taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle on board a helicopter that was enroute to Vinh Quoi in the Delta Region of South Vietnam. The ...
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CH-34A Helicoper

Date: 1963
Description: A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting...
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Vietnamese Lookout

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Description: An unidentified image from the collection of Dickey Chapelle, a freelance photographer, shows a U.S. Marine on duty in the watchtower of a South Vietnamese...
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Vietnam Outpost

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Description: Dropping supplies at a South Vietnamese army outpost. Photographer Dickey Chapelle of Milwaukee was on board the helicopter as the drop was taking place.
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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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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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Dead Vietnamese Man

Date: 1961
Description: A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body.
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Sea Swallows Ambush

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Description: A man is positioned in crab-laden mud in which the Sea Swallows set up "the toughest ambush I've ever covered". Vietnam.
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Sea Swallows with Flag

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Description: Two members of the Sea Swallows display a captured Viet Cong flag. Vietnam.
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Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle dressed in military clothing wading through a swamp in Vietnam.
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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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Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
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Laird and South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1971
Description: The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour.
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North Vietnamese Women on Patrol

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph released by the Vietnam News Agency-Hanoi on March 10, 1966. It was received by the National Coordinating Committee against the War i...
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North Vietnamese Freedom Fighters

Date: 12 1965
Description: Anti-aircraft crew that was said to have downed 14 American planes during four days in December, 1965. This propaganda photograph was released by a Hanoi s...
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LBJ Meets the Wounded

Date: 05 23 1966
Description: On a surprise visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital, President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with John R. Kington, a Marine wounded in Vietnam. In the next bed is...

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