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Members of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade wade through a marshy canal on the edge of a pineapple plantation 18 miles west of Saigon while sweeping Viet Cong infiltration routes to the capital. Sheets of Communist ground fire shot down four U.S. helicopters, two of them on missions to evacuate wounded GIs from the battlefield, military spokesmen said, March 26, 1969
Members of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade wade through a marshy canal on the edge of a pineapple plantation 18 miles west of Saigon while sweeping Viet Cong infiltration routes to the capital. Sheets of Communist ground fire shot down four U.S. helicopters, two of them on missions to evacuate wounded GIs from the battlefield, military spokesmen said, March 26, 1969
Members of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade wade through a marshy canal on the edge of a pineapple plantation 18 miles west of Saigon while sweeping Viet Cong infiltration routes to the capital. Sheets of Communist ground fire shot down four U.S. helicopters, two of them on missions to evacuate wounded GIs from the battlefield, military spokesmen said, March 26, 1969

Members of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade wade through a marshy canal on the edge of a pineapple plantation 18 miles west of Saigon while sweeping Viet Cong infiltration routes to the capital. Sheets of Communist ground fire shot down four U.S. helicopters, two of them on missions to evacuate wounded GIs from the battlefield, military spokesmen said, March 26, 1969

Maker (British, b. 1939)
Date3/26/1969
MediumVintage United Press International radiophoto
Dimensions5-5/8 x 8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Collections
Object number2024.313
Status
Not on view
Tunnel Rat: Sergeant Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from Viet Cong tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas scurrying ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade propped the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as "tunnel rats." They were called out of the tunnels today and nauseating gas was pumped in, January 21, 1967
Tunnel Rat: Sergeant Ronald Payne, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, emerges from Viet Cong tunnel holding his silencer-equipped revolver with which he fired at guerrillas scurrying ahead of him underground. Payne and others of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade propped the massive tunnel in Hobo Woods, South Vietnam, and found detailed maps and plans of the enemy. The infantrymen who explored the complex are known as "tunnel rats." They were called out of the tunnels today and nauseating gas was pumped in, January 21, 1967
Unknown Artist
1/21/1967
Lineup For Long Ride: passing Vietnamese views American troops resting in shade of mothballed Marine helicopters at dock area of Da Nang. Craft belong to Marine Air Group-16, first deployed in Vietnam in 1962, this is moving to Hawaii and California, May 29, 1971
Lineup For Long Ride: passing Vietnamese views American troops resting in shade of mothballed Marine helicopters at dock area of Da Nang. Craft belong to Marine Air Group-16, first deployed in Vietnam in 1962, this is moving to Hawaii and California, May 29, 1971
John T. Wheeler
5/29/1971
Bird is the Word: North Carolina Variation
Bird is the Word: North Carolina Variation
Mel Chin
2019
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the American Negro civil rights movement for more than a decade, addresses an integrated audience during a testimonial dinner in his honor here January 27. The dinner was held in one of the city's largest downtown hotels, January 27, 1965
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the American Negro civil rights movement for more than a decade, addresses an integrated audience during a testimonial dinner in his honor here January 27. The dinner was held in one of the city's largest downtown hotels, January 27, 1965
Unknown Artist
1/27/1965
Defiant Alabama Governor George Wallace (center, raincoat) is pictured surrounded by state troopers in front of the executive mansion the outspoken segregationist was accompanied by troopers after a federal court in Birmingham ordered U.S. Marshals to serve Wallace with papers to appear in court June 3 to show cause why he should not interfere with the scheduled integration of the University of Alabama June 10, Montgomery, Alabama, May 27, 1963
Defiant Alabama Governor George Wallace (center, raincoat) is pictured surrounded by state troopers in front of the executive mansion the outspoken segregationist was accompanied by troopers after a federal court in Birmingham ordered U.S. Marshals to serve Wallace with papers to appear in court June 3 to show cause why he should not interfere with the scheduled integration of the University of Alabama June 10, Montgomery, Alabama, May 27, 1963
Unknown Artist
5/27/1963
A U.S. Air Force C-130 drops supplies on a remote airstrip in South Vietnam. Parachute extraction of cargo permits the large C-130 to deliver supplies to bases where runways can only handle small, light aircraft, and reduces the plane’s exposure to hostile ground fire, February 18, 1969
A U.S. Air Force C-130 drops supplies on a remote airstrip in South Vietnam. Parachute extraction of cargo permits the large C-130 to deliver supplies to bases where runways can only handle small, light aircraft, and reduces the plane’s exposure to hostile ground fire, February 18, 1969
Unknown Artist
2/18/1969
Communist Missile Site Near Hanoi: U.S. Air Force released this picture in Saigon today taken by a reconnaissance pilot 25 miles northwest of Hanoi. The Air Force says it shows a communist missile site, 700 feet by 450 feet in the area, containing six launching pads with five SAM (surface-to-air) missiles visible. The U.S. Command in Saigon disclosed that 30 American planes have been downed by Soviet-built SAM missiles over North Vietnam in the last year and a half, Hanoi, January 2, 1967
Communist Missile Site Near Hanoi: U.S. Air Force released this picture in Saigon today taken by a reconnaissance pilot 25 miles northwest of Hanoi. The Air Force says it shows a communist missile site, 700 feet by 450 feet in the area, containing six launching pads with five SAM (surface-to-air) missiles visible. The U.S. Command in Saigon disclosed that 30 American planes have been downed by Soviet-built SAM missiles over North Vietnam in the last year and a half, Hanoi, January 2, 1967
Unknown Artist
1/2/1967
Determined Trooper: A Cambodian soldier grimaces as he prepares to fire a rocket into a suspected Viet Cong position in the Cambodian town of Saang recently. Thousands of South Vietnamese troops, with American advisor and air and artillery support, pushed into Cambodia Wednesday against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The offensive marked a drastic change in White House policy, since up to now, the White House had barred American advisors and planes from crossing the border of offensive missions, April 1970
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Mark Godfrey
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Title Sheets from Japanese Book (Pair)
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Unknown Artist
n.d.
Title Sheets from Japanese Book (Pair)
Title Sheets from Japanese Book (Pair)
Unknown Artist
n.d.
Major Konrad W. Trautman is greeted by Brigade General Russell Ogan at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport Wednesday at release point, March 14, 1973
Major Konrad W. Trautman is greeted by Brigade General Russell Ogan at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport Wednesday at release point, March 14, 1973
Horst Faas
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Adjudication définitive de l'entreprise générale du balayage de notre bonne ville de Paris (Definitive Sweeping of the Beautiful City of Paris)
Adjudication définitive de l'entreprise générale du balayage de notre bonne ville de Paris (Definitive Sweeping of the Beautiful City of Paris)
Unknown Artist
circa 1830