Saturday, August 6, 2011

Vietnam War Photographs

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U.S. Marine Corps chaplain John Monamara of Boston administers the last rites to war correspondent Dickey Chapelle

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Wearing a bloody bandage over the left side of his face, medic Thomas Cole of Richmond, Va., cradles the head of Staff Sgt.Harrison C.D. Pell from Hazelton, Pa., of the First Cavalry Divison. (AP)

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Vietnamese battalion commander Captain Thach Quyen interrogates a captured Viet Cong suspect. (AP)

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A young Viet Cong suspect cries after hearing a rifle shot. His captors, Chinese Nung tribesmen in the service of the U.S. Special Forces, pretended to shoot his father, a ruse designed to make the boy reveal information about Communist guerrillas.(UPI)

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An ammunition dump
struck by a shell explodes
in front of U.S. Marines.


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The Marines were
under siege for
several months

at Khe Sanh.
This portrait was published
in
NEWSWEEK
after Ellison was killed.
(Black Star)


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Wearing a bloody bandage
over the left side of his face, medic Thomas Cole of Richmond,
Va., cradles the head of Staff Sgt.Harrison C.D. Pell from Hazelton, Pa., of the First Cavalry Divison. (AP)


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Crew Chief James Farley, with his guns jammed and two wounded comrades aboard, shouts to his gunner. (LIFE)

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In a supply shack, the tragic and frustrating mission over, Crew Chief James Farley weeps. (LIFE)

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Marine gunner John Wilson, shouldering a rocket launcher, was part of a Marines reconnaissance force. He was killed in action twelve days later. (LIFE)

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First-aid center, where wounded Marines were treated before being helped to air-evacuation points. (Life)

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The photographer's shadow looms over an artillery position after North Vietnamese forces overran several South Vietnamese government artillery bases. (VNA)

The photographer's below were all KIA
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Huynh Thanh My

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Robert Jackson Ellison

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Charles Richard Eggleston
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Henri Huet

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Larry Burrows

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Kyoichi Sawada

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