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Filter: Subject of Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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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. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Kerry taken during his years as an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | John Kerry, then a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, stands at the microphone, flanked by another Vietnam veteran at a rally to "Dump the War." |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body. |
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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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| Description: | Two members of the Sea Swallows display a captured Viet Cong flag. Vietnam. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle dressed in military clothing wading through a swamp in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, wearing a fatigue uniform, shaking hands with a military officer during a tour of Vietnam. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 07 22 1971 |
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| Description: | President Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office of the White House, while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is waiting to report on hi... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Bill Henshaw, a disabled, wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran, at a Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration during the Nixon Inauguration in 1973. |
| Date: | 12 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Fun Travel Adventure," an underground newspaper, depicting a photomontage of soldiers at Iwo Jima with an oversized, purple flower replacing the ... |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni... |
| Date: | 01 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietn... |
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| Description: | A group of men imitating ducks, participating in a theatrical performance. A man wielding a shotgun is in the background, and is wearing a hat bearing the ... |
| Date: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Political propaganda poster featuring a red, white, and blue eagle being struck down from the sky, accompanied by the phrase: "Strike Him Down." The eagle... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. |
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