The Vietnam War Images
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Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through the swamps of Vietnam, 1969.
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A soldier stands guard in an observation tower as a chaplain holds mass, July 1967.
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An American GI keeps track of the time he has left on his "short time" helmet, 1968.
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A Navy nurse checks the medical chart of a Marine aboard a hospital ship off the coast of South Vietnam, April 1966.
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Vietnam War protesters in Wichita, Kansas, 1967.
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The bodies of U.S. Marines lie half buried after a long and bloody battle at Khe Sanh, 1968.
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A U.S. lieutenant, a prisoner of war until 1973, is met by his family at a military base in California upon his return from Vietnam.
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A Vietnamese woman carries her wounded child away from the fighting; warfare continued for two years following the departure of U.S. troops in 1973.
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With the fall of Saigon and the end to the war in Vietnam, Time magazine deems the late Ho Chi Minh "The Victor," May 1975.