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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
Photograph

Marine Casualties at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ...
Print

Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Photograph

Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Helilift of corpses after a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop mats on the ground in a field. S...
Photograph

Carrying Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: Aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi. Children watch as a group of men begin to pick up corpses wrapped in sheets on woven mats.
Photograph

Helilift of Corpses

Date: 06 1962
Description: In the aftermath of Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi, corpses await helilift. The corpses are wrapped in sheets and lying atop woven mats in a ...
Photograph

Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in the village of Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two of the deceased are covered with woven mats and lying on wh...
Photograph

Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Funeral services in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam for casualties of a Viet Cong attack. Two bodies are lying covered with woven mats on top of white pallets. There ar...
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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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Funeral, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women and children crouch around bodies laid out for funerals covered with woven mats. The deceased were killed during a Viet Cong raid of Vinh Quoi, Vietn...
Photograph

Vietnamese Woman with Children Surrounded by Soldiers

Date: 
Description: A woman is placing a baby in a basket held by a little boy. Behind her, a man lies prone holding another child, while two soldiers walk towards a house in ...
Poster

CISPES Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster opposing aid to the military government of El Salvador. It features an image of a blood red dollar sign, and a bound and blindfolded body lying in a...
Poster

The Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a monumental woman cradling a wounded man. She is wearing a Red Cross hat, and the Red Cross insignia behind her on the...
Poster

Fighting In France For Freedom! — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man wearing a kilt with his arm in a sling. Soldiers are standing around him. There is a map and a broken window in t...
Manuscript

Register of Dead, Wounded, and Prisoners

Date: 
Description: "A register of persons who have been either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners by the enemy in Augusta County, as also of such as have made their escape."
Poster

What are Your Taxes Buying in El Salvador?

Date: 1987
Description: Poster advocating against United States governmental support for the Salvadoran military and government. The poster reproduces a photograph of people, incl...
Poster

Antifascistes of all World (Front)

Date: 1936
Description: Poster in English, French, German and Spanish. Includes text in four languages, and images of children and war damage.

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