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Military Convoy

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Description: Soldiers pose in front of a military convoy.
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Dickey Chapelle Taking Cover

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle in Lebanon wearing camouflaged clothing and a helmet crouched low to the ground and holding a camera. She is next to and behind a soldier w...
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Flying Bananas

Date: 06 1962
Description: A U.S. Army Piasecki CH21-C helicopter operating at a newly cut drop zone strip near the Laotian border to resupply Vietnamese troops. Because of the two r...
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Marines with a Helicopter

Date: 1960
Description: Marines running out of a helicopter in Vietnam.
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Algerian FLN Training

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members doing push-ups in the desert near boulders.
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Indian Villagers

Date: 1962
Description: View from water towards people along a shoreline in an Indian village. They are carrying food and water in baskets.
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Lao Infantrymen near Tents

Date: 1961
Description: Three Lao infantrymen stand outside near of tents in the Keukacham village.
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Front at Nago

Date: 1945
Description: The front at Nago, Okinawa. A uniformed soldier stands on a rocky outcropping near bushes. Misty or smoky hillsides are visible in the background.
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Soldiers in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: View from behind towards two soldiers lying on a hill among shrubs overlooking a hilly landscape with a submachine gun. The soldiers are wearing fatigues a...
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Marines Wade Across a River

Date: 1965
Description: View from shoreline of U.S. Marines wading across a river while on a "Search and Clear" operation near Da Nang in Vietnam.
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Soldiers with Wreckage

Date: 1958
Description: Soldiers of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution stand next to a pile of wreckage in a rural area holding guns.
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Plane on Keukacham Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: Small plane sitting on Keukacham airstrip, Laos. A green hill rises in the background and tents and ramshackle buildings are on either side of the strip.
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Search and Clear Mission

Date: 1965
Description: Rear view of group of soldiers walking in an open field on a "search and clear" mission near Da Nang. Hills are in the background.
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Helicopters Loading

Date: 1965
Description: A soldier with a radio on his back waits in the foreground while a group of men stand waiting while other men board helicopters on a beach in Vietnam.
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Algerian FLN Member on Patrol

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member on patrol, looking for enemy French forces. He is holding a rifle and wearing a turban and a tunic. Behind him...
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Luang Prabang Airport Runway

Date: 05 1961
Description: The wide dirt expanse of the Luang Prabang airport runway, Laos. A man is walking across a runway, and a plane is on another runway near a wooden building ...
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Tank and Keukacham

Date: 1961
Description: View of Keukacham village, Laos from behind a tank. A partially thatched building is in the foreground and other buildings on a dirt road are visible in th...
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Helicopter over Vietnam

Date: 11 1965
Description: A helicopter flies in the sky, with tree-covered hills in the background. In the foreground are several U.S. Marine transport vehicles. Soldiers are workin...
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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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Safehouse Motel

Date: 1959
Description: Motel that was formerly a clandestine safe-house for the 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution. Parking lot with a blue car in front of a pink,...

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