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Vietnamese Girl with Sword

Date: 1962
Description: A girl holds a sword over her head while performing a traditional sword dance at the village of Binh Hung, Vietnam.
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Chapelle Selfie

Date: 1962
Description: Dickie Chapelle self-portrait in Vietnam. A shot we would currently call a "selfie." She is outdoors and wears a hat and smokes a cigarette.
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Soldiers Reading a Map

Date: 1965
Description: View of five soldiers in Vietnam, some of whom are reading a map, and others smoking cigarettes.
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Dead Viet Cong Soldier

Date: 1965
Description: U.S. soldiers drag the body of a dead Viet Cong soldier on a beach.
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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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Soldiers with Vietnamese Villager

Date: 11 1965
Description: U.S. soldiers talk to a man in a Vietnamese village.
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Soldier Takes a Rest

Date: 11 1965
Description: View looking down at a U.S. soldier, holding a rifle and carrying a radio unit on his back, sits on a large rock on a ridge overlooking a river.
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Soldiers Consulting a Map

Date: 11 1965
Description: A group of U.S. soldiers seated near a brick building in Vietnam consulting a map.
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Children at Quin Nhon Airport

Date: 06 1962
Description: A group of children reaching for something held by a man at the Quin Nhon airport in the mountain region of Vietnam.
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Sea Swallow Training

Date: 10 1961
Description: An explosive is detonated by an instructor between rows of crawling Vietnamese Sea Swallow trainees at Binh Hung. The training was intended to teach them t...
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New Sea Swallow Graduates

Date: 10 1961
Description: View from water of a newly formed company of Vietnamese Sea Swallows riding in a boat near Binh Hung as they joyously celebrate its graduation from trainin...
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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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Children Salute U.S. Army Helicopter

Date: 06 1962
Description: A group of children in a village near the Laotian border saluting a U.S. helicopter that landed there.
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Vietnamese Soldier with Spoils of Victory

Date: 04 1961
Description: Soldiers from the 5th Division of the Vietnamese Army posing with a Russian flag, a Viet Cong flag, and rifles, seized after a victorious battle near the t...
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Vietnamese Funeral

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

Date: 1962
Description: U.S. Marines posing with a captured Russian flag in front of a helicopter at the Soc Trang U.S. Marine helicopter base in Vietnam.
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Chinese National Marine Firing a Gun

Date: 1961
Description: View from behind of a Chinese National Marine firing a gun at night in Laos.
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Demonstration Commemorating Hiroshima Bombing

Date: 08 06 1965
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison student holding a placard in front of a speaker at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol commemorating the atom bo...
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Hearing on War in Vietnam

Date: 07 31 1965
Description: State Representative Robert Kastenmeier speaking during a hearing sponsored by him on the war in Vietnam. Of the 23 persons who spoke at the hearing, only ...
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Hearing on War in Vietnam

Date: 07 31 1965
Description: Evan Stark, a University of Wisconsin teaching assistant in sociology and chairman of the Student Peace Center, speaking at a hearing which was sponsored b...

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