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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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Navy Doctors Performing Surgery

Date: 1945
Description: Three male medical personnel operate on a wounded soldier while a female medic administers anaesthetic.
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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 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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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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Medical Personnel Tending to Wounded Soldier

Date: 04 1945
Description: Two medics tend to a wounded soldier laying on a cot at a field hospital at Okinawa.
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Field Hospital, Okinawa

Date: 1945
Description: J.H. Price and another medic administer fluids to a wounded soldier through an intravenous tube at a field hospital in Okinawa.
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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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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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Wounded Marine

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Description: Private first class, John W. Hood being tended to on the deck of the USS Samaritan. Hood suffered an abdominal wound in combat on Iwo Jima.
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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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