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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
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

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Date2/9/1965
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions6(?) x 8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
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Object number2024.323
Status
Not on view
Keeping Saigon Secure: two soldiers from the First Air Cavalry Division move toward a helicopter which airlifted them from a two-week patrol northeast of Saigon. They are members of one of the few remaining U.S. combat units operating in South Vietnam and are charged with security of the area east of Saigon-Bien Hoa region, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, February 1972
Keeping Saigon Secure: two soldiers from the First Air Cavalry Division move toward a helicopter which airlifted them from a two-week patrol northeast of Saigon. They are members of one of the few remaining U.S. combat units operating in South Vietnam and are charged with security of the area east of Saigon-Bien Hoa region, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, February 1972
Unknown Artist
2/1/1972
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
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
Allowed To Leave: a Laotian immigration officer stamps the passport of Michael Rogal, the finance officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, right, as he prepares to leave Vientiane, Friday. Rogal, who was barred from leaving Laos Thursday, was allowed to depart Friday after showing immigration officials a letter stating that his work had been completed, June 20, 1975
Allowed To Leave: a Laotian immigration officer stamps the passport of Michael Rogal, the finance officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development, right, as he prepares to leave Vientiane, Friday. Rogal, who was barred from leaving Laos Thursday, was allowed to depart Friday after showing immigration officials a letter stating that his work had been completed, June 20, 1975
Neal Ulevich
6/20/1975
U.S. 101 - Migratory Pea Pickers near Santa Maria, CA, February 1936
U.S. 101 - Migratory Pea Pickers near Santa Maria, CA, February 1936
Dorothea Lange
1936
Saving Wounded Child In Hue: A U.S. Marine carries a blanket-wrapped wounded Vietnamese child from an aid station to an ambulance for evacuation from the Citadel in Hue, February 17, 1968. The child wandered into Marine lines after he was wounded by American artillery fire directed at Red positions.
Saving Wounded Child In Hue: A U.S. Marine carries a blanket-wrapped wounded Vietnamese child from an aid station to an ambulance for evacuation from the Citadel in Hue, February 17, 1968. The child wandered into Marine lines after he was wounded by American artillery fire directed at Red positions.
John Olson
2/17/1968
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
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
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
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
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Says His Brother Is The Boss: Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, is pictured today during news interview in Saigon. Nhu said he has no political ambitions and that his brother is boss of his country. Nhu and the president both expressed hope for a quick return to normalcy from South Vietnam’s political-religious crisis. Both forecast an improvement in strained relations with the U.S., September 5, 1963
Horst Faas
9/5/1963
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
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