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Checking Captured Gun: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, right, and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, left of gun, look over a captured 51-caliber anti-aircraft gun at Firebase Nguyen Hue, South Vietnam. The gun was captured by South Vietnamese troops operating in Laos. The firebase is located west of Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, February 1971
Checking Captured Gun: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, right, and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, left of gun, look over a captured 51-caliber anti-aircraft gun at Firebase Nguyen Hue, South Vietnam. The gun was captured by South Vietnamese troops operating in Laos. The firebase is located west of Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, February 1971
Checking Captured Gun: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, right, and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, left of gun, look over a captured 51-caliber anti-aircraft gun at Firebase Nguyen Hue, South Vietnam. The gun was captured by South Vietnamese troops operating in Laos. The firebase is located west of Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, February 1971

Checking Captured Gun: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, right, and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, left of gun, look over a captured 51-caliber anti-aircraft gun at Firebase Nguyen Hue, South Vietnam. The gun was captured by South Vietnamese troops operating in Laos. The firebase is located west of Khe Sanh near the Laotian border, February 1971

Maker (Vietnamese-American, b. 1951)
Date2/1/1971
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions9(?) x 6 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.308
Status
Not on view
Time Out For Volley Ball: Laotian soldiers of an artillery position near Pak Suong, North of Luang Prabang in Laos play volley ball while their 155 and 105mm guns rest at base in background and foreground. The guns are used to support infantry in hills north of the royal Laotian capital. The artillery officers are mostly trained in the U.S., speak English, and have developed a liking for western sports, March 2, 1971
Time Out For Volley Ball: Laotian soldiers of an artillery position near Pak Suong, North of Luang Prabang in Laos play volley ball while their 155 and 105mm guns rest at base in background and foreground. The guns are used to support infantry in hills north of the royal Laotian capital. The artillery officers are mostly trained in the U.S., speak English, and have developed a liking for western sports, March 2, 1971
Horst Faas
3/2/1971
Farewell Appearance: Under the watchful gaze of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, left, Vice President Spiro Agnew shakes hands with Air Force Captain Palmer G. Arnold of Roswell, New Mexico, Agnew handed out medals to U.S. and South Vietnamese servicemen Friday before departing Saigon for an unscheduled stopover in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Captain Arnold received the silver star, August 28, 1970
Farewell Appearance: Under the watchful gaze of South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, left, Vice President Spiro Agnew shakes hands with Air Force Captain Palmer G. Arnold of Roswell, New Mexico, Agnew handed out medals to U.S. and South Vietnamese servicemen Friday before departing Saigon for an unscheduled stopover in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Captain Arnold received the silver star, August 28, 1970
Rick Merron
8/28/1970
A U.S. marine, center, stands atop his post, a sandbagged bunker, as he watches clouds of black smoke rise at the marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, during a North Vietnamese artillery barrage. The marines have constructed a system of deep trenches and fortified bunkers, topped with sandbags, empty shell casings, and even timber, to withstand the daily bombardment, February 1968
A U.S. marine, center, stands atop his post, a sandbagged bunker, as he watches clouds of black smoke rise at the marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, during a North Vietnamese artillery barrage. The marines have constructed a system of deep trenches and fortified bunkers, topped with sandbags, empty shell casings, and even timber, to withstand the daily bombardment, February 1968
Unknown Artist
2/1/1968
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Dang Van Phuoc
3/13/1975
Checking Credentials: Lawyer William Kunstler, center, and Dr. Frankel Kenneth, right, get their credentials checked by a police officer in effort to visit H. Rap Brown in New York's Roosevelt Hospital Saturday. Brown was wounded during a gun battle earlier Saturday when he and accomplices attempted to holdup a Manhattan bar. Both Kunstler and Kenneth were denied permission to visit Brown, October 16, 1971
Checking Credentials: Lawyer William Kunstler, center, and Dr. Frankel Kenneth, right, get their credentials checked by a police officer in effort to visit H. Rap Brown in New York's Roosevelt Hospital Saturday. Brown was wounded during a gun battle earlier Saturday when he and accomplices attempted to holdup a Manhattan bar. Both Kunstler and Kenneth were denied permission to visit Brown, October 16, 1971
Unknown Artist
10/16/1971
Ray Gun or Gun
Ray Gun or Gun
H. C. (Horace Clifford) Westermann
1962
Flushed From The Swamp: South Vietnamese soldiers bind a Vietcong guerrilla preparatory to questioning after he was flushed from a Mekong River Delta swamp 120 miles southwest of Saigon on August 17, 1966. Troops of the 9th division, borne by U.S. Helicopters, were on a search and destroy operation when they located some guerrillas who were trying to hide their weapons in the swamp
Flushed From The Swamp: South Vietnamese soldiers bind a Vietcong guerrilla preparatory to questioning after he was flushed from a Mekong River Delta swamp 120 miles southwest of Saigon on August 17, 1966. Troops of the 9th division, borne by U.S. Helicopters, were on a search and destroy operation when they located some guerrillas who were trying to hide their weapons in the swamp
Dang Van Phuoc
8/17/1966
Phnom Penh Wreckage: Workers search through the wreckage of Cambodian air force helicopters and planes in the wake of an early morning raid by Vietcong on the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia, January 22, 1971
Phnom Penh Wreckage: Workers search through the wreckage of Cambodian air force helicopters and planes in the wake of an early morning raid by Vietcong on the Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia, January 22, 1971
Nick Ut
1/22/1971
Playing The War Game: these are some of the young Pathet Lao soldiers who recently rallied to the Vientiane government in Khammuonne Province, Nong Leng, Laos, during a revolt against their Vietnamese advisers and troops. They had lived under North Vietnamese control since 1960, October 31, 1972
Playing The War Game: these are some of the young Pathet Lao soldiers who recently rallied to the Vientiane government in Khammuonne Province, Nong Leng, Laos, during a revolt against their Vietnamese advisers and troops. They had lived under North Vietnamese control since 1960, October 31, 1972
Unknown Artist
10/31/1972
A South Vietnamese woman holds two small children in a refugee camp in Da Nang, South Vietnam. They are from the Northern areas of South Vietnam, forced out by the North Vietnamese Invasion, May 17, 1972
A South Vietnamese woman holds two small children in a refugee camp in Da Nang, South Vietnam. They are from the Northern areas of South Vietnam, forced out by the North Vietnamese Invasion, May 17, 1972
Unknown Artist
5/17/1972
Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
Wails for Buddhist Monks: Wailing woman, one of a crowd of 1,000 followers, holds her hands in prayer outside the Buddhist National Institute in Saigon, South Vietnam, June 18th, 1966, as several monks leave the pagoda in an effort to be arrested or jailed in protest against the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky
Horst Faas
6/18/1966
Second day Northwest at Jennie Richee are captured by general Federals glan-delinian near Aronburg Run River (verso), [ ] Battle of [ ]ster [] D. (recto)
Second day Northwest at Jennie Richee are captured by general Federals glan-delinian near Aronburg Run River (verso), [ ] Battle of [ ]ster [] D. (recto)
Henry Darger
n.d. (circa 1950)