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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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FLN Members with NATO Bomb

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members show an unexploded bomb to Dickey Chapelle, proving NATO's involvement in the war. The men are crouched around t...
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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.
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Captive, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Captive held in a concrete room in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village. The woman is wearing all black, is barefoot an...
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Smoking Rubble, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Smoking rubble in the village of Vin Quoi, Vietnam. Destruction caused by Viet Cong.
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Vietnamese Soldiers Display Captured Flag

Date: 1962
Description: A group of Vietnamese soldiers display a South Vietnamese flag they captured in combat.
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Helicopter Gunner

Date: 1962
Description: Portrait of a helicopter gunner at his gun in an H-21 Army helicopter in the mountain region of Vietnam.
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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...
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Executed Man

Date: 1957
Description: Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to...
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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...
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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 ...
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Soldiers Transport Woman on Stretcher

Date: 1962
Description: Two American soldiers carry a Vietnamese woman on a stretcher across a field in Vietnam.
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Vietnamese Soldier in Helicopter

Date: 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldier in a helicopter, holding a rifle and looking out the open door at the countryside of Vietnam.
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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...
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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...
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Suvivors Walk through Field

Date: 06 1962
Description: Women and children survivors of a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi walk through an open area with bushes and grass.
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Soldiers Inspect Papers

Date: 1962
Description: An American soldier inspects the papers of a Vietnamese man in the countryside along a river. Vietnamese soldiers and a boy are grouped around him.
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Helicopters over Rice Paddies

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of four U.S. Marine helicopters banking over an expanse of rice paddies in Vietnam. Fluffy white clouds fill the sky.
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U.S. Helicopter Flock

Date: 1962
Description: Aerial view of flock of U.S. Marine helicopters in the sky over Vietnam. One of the dark green and yellow helicopters is in the foreground. Four others tra...
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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,...

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