Những hình ảnh Vietnam War

ARVN in an unidentified hamlet. Transferred from the Byrd Archives.

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SEAN FLYNN - Duc Phong, Vietnam, 1966
A young ********* 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)
Sean Flynn arrived at the UPI bureau in Saigon shortly after his friend Dana Stone. He had "popped over" to Vietnam from Singapore where he was acting in a movie. An adventurer, like his famous father, Errol Flynn, he wanted to see some action. I got him accre***ed as a UPI photographer. Once official, he wasted no time disappearing into the "boonies."
Sean was unlike most photographers. Instead of doing quick operations in the field, Sean wanted to hang out with the Special Forces and the "LURPS " (Long Range Patrols) in the thickest jungles and the highest, most remote mountain ranges. He would disappear for weeks at a time, and when he returned, it was with only a few rolls of film. But his photos were unlike anyone else''s.
(Dirck Halstead)

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KYOICHI SAWADA - Tan Binh, Vietnam, 1966
The body of a ********* soldier is dragged behind an armored vehicle en route to a burial site after fierce fighting on February 24, 1966. (UPI)
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Shortly after I opened the UPI picture bureau in Saigon in March of 1965, Sawada, who had been confined to a darkroom for the wire service in Tokyo showed up.
He had taken his vacation time and paid his own way to Vietnam. Even though he was the same age of most young photographers covering the war he had a maturity and sense of artistic commitment that made him seem older and wiser. Though most of us shot with Nikons, Sawada was a Leica man, and he used it like the precision instrument it is.
In 1965, he won both the Pulitzer Prize and the World Press Photo grand award. In 1972, after his death in Cambodia, he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal.
(Dirck Halstead)

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ROBERT ELLISON - Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968
An ammunition dump struck by a shell explodes in front of U.S. Marines.
This picture was on the cover of Newsweek on March 18, 1968. (Black Star)
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Nóii thêm về Khe Sanh:
Khe Sanh was the biggest ruse of the war. General William Westmoreland was convinced that the Vietnamese Communists would attempt another Dien Bien Phu against the garrison of six thousand Marines he had placed as bait at this forlorn spot in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam. When they did, he was going to squash them in triumph. But, as explained by General Hoang Phuong, the Vietnamese chief of military history, whom I met in Hanoi after the war, "General Westmoreland fell into a strategic ambush."
The Vietnamese gave every appearance of threatening Khe Sanh, surrounding the place with thousands of troops and shelling the base relentlessly. No serious attempt to seize the Marine base ever occurred. The Vietnamese purpose was to distract Westmoreland''s attention from their preparations for the real Dien Bien Phu of the American war, the surprise nationwide offensive at Tet, the lunar New Year holiday, in January 1968, which broke the will of the Johnson administration and of the American public to continue to prosecute the conflict. The ruse succeeded completely. On the first morning of the Tet offensive, Westmoreland announced that the panorama of attacks across South Vietnam, including an assault on the U.S. embassy in the middle of Saigon, was merely a diversion from an intended main thrust at Khe Sanh and across the demilitarized zone.
Yet the credulity of the commanding general cannot detract from the staunchness of the Marines who held Khe Sanh, at the cost of 205 of their comrades, and the gallantry of the aviators who kept them supplied with food and ammunition.
(Neil Sheehan)
One of the casualties of Khe Sanh was photographer Robert Ellison.

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ROBERT ELLISON - Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968
An ammunition dump struck by a shell explodes in front of U.S. Marines.
This picture was on the cover of Newsweek on March 18, 1968. (Black Star)
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Khe Sanh was the biggest ruse of the war. General William Westmoreland was convinced that the Vietnamese Communists would attempt another Dien Bien Phu against the garrison of six thousand Marines he had placed as bait at this forlorn spot in the far northwest corner of South Vietnam. When they did, he was going to squash them in triumph. But, as explained by General Hoang Phuong, the Vietnamese chief of military history, whom I met in Hanoi after the war, "General Westmoreland fell into a strategic ambush."
The Vietnamese gave every appearance of threatening Khe Sanh, surrounding the place with thousands of troops and shelling the base relentlessly. No serious attempt to seize the Marine base ever occurred. The Vietnamese purpose was to distract Westmoreland''s attention from their preparations for the real Dien Bien Phu of the American war, the surprise nationwide offensive at Tet, the lunar New Year holiday, in January 1968, which broke the will of the Johnson administration and of the American public to continue to prosecute the conflict. The ruse succeeded completely. On the first morning of the Tet offensive, Westmoreland announced that the panorama of attacks across South Vietnam, including an assault on the U.S. embassy in the middle of Saigon, was merely a diversion from an intended main thrust at Khe Sanh and across the demilitarized zone.
Yet the credulity of the commanding general cannot detract from the staunchness of the Marines who held Khe Sanh, at the cost of 205 of their comrades, and the gallantry of the aviators who kept them supplied with food and ammunition.
(Neil Sheehan)
One of the casualties of Khe Sanh was photographer Robert Ellison.

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ROBERT ELLISON - Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968
U.S. Marines huddle as North Vietnamese shell the airfield, aiming for incoming supply aircraft. (Black Star)
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