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Special Mission Force (SMF) members Ferricks, Brown and Curtis (left to right) drink rice wine at a Montagnard party. The rice wine had been buried for 30 days in the same jar with a banana leaf covering the top. Pleiku 1972
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1965. Army combat platoon leader Second Lieutenant John Libs (centre) of 2nd Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, surveys the situation with his men from the relative safety of a watery rice paddy as they prepare to advance on a Viet Cong sniper position. Libs and the rest of 2nd Platoon participated in the battle of Xa Cam My/Operation Abilene in April 1966, during which Charlie Company suffered 82% casualties.
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173rd Airborne is supported by helicopters during the Iron Triangle assault. The Iron Triangle was a strategic stronghold for the North Vietnamese and remained so until the war's end. 1965
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Guitar slung over his shoulder, a trooper of the United States 1st Cavalry walks ashore from a landing craft. More than 2,500 cavalrymen arrived in Vietnam, bringing the total of the Army's First Airmobile Division up to 16,000 men. 1965
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Riflemen from the 173rd Airborne Brigade charge toward Viet Cong positions, holding machine guns in a wooded area of War Zone D, 1967
Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade are engaged in a long crawl to the crest of Hill 875, a steep mound that in just four days of combat cost American forces some of their highest casualties of the war. Pushing inch-by-inch of sloping earth behind them, U.S. paratroopers seized most of the hill on Nov. 22. They were then faced with a North Vietnamese stronghold atop the peak and reports of two fresh regiments of NVA troops moving into the region. 1967
Members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade are engaged in a long crawl to the crest of Hill 875, a steep mound that in just four days of combat cost American forces some of their highest casualties of the war. Pushing inch-by-inch of sloping earth behind them, U.S. paratroopers seized most of the hill on Nov. 22. They were then faced with a North Vietnamese stronghold atop the peak and reports of two fresh regiments of NVA troops moving into the region. 1967
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Hairstylist service was a rarity at the embattled Marine bastion of Khe Sanh, so Marine PFC Robert DuBois of Brooklyn, New York, did the honors for a buddy and shaved the head of Cpl. Efrain Torres of New York outside their bunker, 1968
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A CIA employee (thought to be O.B. Harnage) helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half-mile from the U.S. Embassy. The fall came two years after the Paris Peace accords, which saw the U.S. leave the conflict. This moment is also known as the "Liberation of Saigon." 1975
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20-year-old Army Medic Thomas Cole of Richmond Virginia, who served with ‘A’ Co., 2nd Btn., 7th Cavalry Regt.,1st Cav. Div, on a muddy trench in An Thi, Central Highlands
The same boy from before, Thomas Cole writes a letter home while recovering from a head wound at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon on February 19, 1966.
The same boy from before, Thomas Cole writes a letter home while recovering from a head wound at the Third Field Hospital in Saigon on February 19, 1966.
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