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As Red China pictures Viet Cong: Red China’s New China news agency, which radioed this picture to Tokyo for release there, describes it as liberation militiamen, Viet Cong, discussing attack plans before staging an operation at an unspecified place in South Viet Nam, November 1965
As Red China pictures Viet Cong: Red China’s New China news agency, which radioed this picture to Tokyo for release there, describes it as liberation militiamen, Viet Cong, discussing attack plans before staging an operation at an unspecified place in South Viet Nam, November 1965
As Red China pictures Viet Cong: Red China’s New China news agency, which radioed this picture to Tokyo for release there, describes it as liberation militiamen, Viet Cong, discussing attack plans before staging an operation at an unspecified place in South Viet Nam, November 1965

As Red China pictures Viet Cong: Red China’s New China news agency, which radioed this picture to Tokyo for release there, describes it as liberation militiamen, Viet Cong, discussing attack plans before staging an operation at an unspecified place in South Viet Nam, November 1965

Maker
Date11/1/1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions6(?) x 9(?) inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
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Object number2024.318
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
The picture of resignation: A Vietnamese girl sifts through the rubble of her destroyed home in the town of Duc Duc in the northern part of South Vietnam. The town has been reduced to a pile of rubble in recent weeks by off-and-on attacks by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Most of the inhabitants have fled but a few remain to try to salvage what they can, August 1974
The picture of resignation: A Vietnamese girl sifts through the rubble of her destroyed home in the town of Duc Duc in the northern part of South Vietnam. The town has been reduced to a pile of rubble in recent weeks by off-and-on attacks by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. Most of the inhabitants have fled but a few remain to try to salvage what they can, August 1974
Unknown Artist
8/1/1974
After Release: Luong Truyen, 16, left, and Nguyen Van Truong, 20, a former militiaman, sit on cot in Duc Pho, Vietnam, yesterday after telling their story of being beaten and starved by their Viet Cong captors. They were among people freed from jungle prison camp about 300 miles north of Saigon by U.S. paratroopers Thursday. The freed men and women told inmates being beaten to death in public executions to frighten other prisoners into submission, July 1967
After Release: Luong Truyen, 16, left, and Nguyen Van Truong, 20, a former militiaman, sit on cot in Duc Pho, Vietnam, yesterday after telling their story of being beaten and starved by their Viet Cong captors. They were among people freed from jungle prison camp about 300 miles north of Saigon by U.S. paratroopers Thursday. The freed men and women told inmates being beaten to death in public executions to frighten other prisoners into submission, July 1967
Unknown Artist
7/1/1967
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
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
Mark Godfrey
4/1/1970
Flag draped coffins of eight American Servicemen killed in attacks on U.S. Military Installations in South Viet Nam, on February 7, are placed in transport plane at Saigon, February 9, 1965 for return flight to the United States. Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese officials attending
Flag draped coffins of eight American Servicemen killed in attacks on U.S. Military Installations in South Viet Nam, on February 7, are placed in transport plane at Saigon, February 9, 1965 for return flight to the United States. Funeral services were held at the Saigon Airport with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor and Vietnamese officials attending
Unknown Artist
2/9/1965
Thatched Hut of the Viet Cong Type in Cambodia: Cambodian military officials and a newsman inspect a thatched hut in Cambodia just a short distance from the South Vietnamese border. The hut was one of the structures discovered in what was believed to be a Vietcong campsite in Cambodia, November 18, 1967
Thatched Hut of the Viet Cong Type in Cambodia: Cambodian military officials and a newsman inspect a thatched hut in Cambodia just a short distance from the South Vietnamese border. The hut was one of the structures discovered in what was believed to be a Vietcong campsite in Cambodia, November 18, 1967
Horst Faas
11/18/1967
Vital Link: Military traffic is halted, top, in August 1968 as U.S. Army engineers finish repairing a pontoon bridge damaged by a Viet Cong underwater mine. Linking Saigon with the Mekong Delta, the bridge over the Oriental River replaced the permanent bridge, blown up by the enemy
Vital Link: Military traffic is halted, top, in August 1968 as U.S. Army engineers finish repairing a pontoon bridge damaged by a Viet Cong underwater mine. Linking Saigon with the Mekong Delta, the bridge over the Oriental River replaced the permanent bridge, blown up by the enemy
Horst Faas
8/1/1968
A South Vietnamese soldier walks down the main street of Tonle Bet, Cambodia, June 1st, 1970, shortly after the area was heavily damaged during fighting between Cambodian troops and Viet Cong/North Vietnamese forces
A South Vietnamese soldier walks down the main street of Tonle Bet, Cambodia, June 1st, 1970, shortly after the area was heavily damaged during fighting between Cambodian troops and Viet Cong/North Vietnamese forces
Henri Huet
6/1/1970
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
Nik Wheeler
3/26/1969
A little girl, known only as Thanh, sits on her hospital cot in a ward of a hospital at Quang Tri, South Vietnam. A Viet Cong mortar, fired into her house on the outskirts of the city, killed her parents and wounded her two sisters. She lost part of her forearm, but walked unaided to the hospital for treatment
A little girl, known only as Thanh, sits on her hospital cot in a ward of a hospital at Quang Tri, South Vietnam. A Viet Cong mortar, fired into her house on the outskirts of the city, killed her parents and wounded her two sisters. She lost part of her forearm, but walked unaided to the hospital for treatment
Unknown Artist
1967
To The Victor: Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut gets a kiss of congratulations from newswoman Edie Lederer in Saigon, May 8, 1973, after it was announced that Ut had won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. The 22-year-old Vietnamese photographer won the prize for his picture of a young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack
To The Victor: Associated Press Photographer Nick Ut gets a kiss of congratulations from newswoman Edie Lederer in Saigon, May 8, 1973, after it was announced that Ut had won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. The 22-year-old Vietnamese photographer won the prize for his picture of a young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack
Neal Ulevich
5/8/1973
Faces of China, Chengtu, China
Faces of China, Chengtu, China
Lou Stoumen
1944