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Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975
Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975
Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975

Happiness in a New Country: A Vietnamese youngster, accompanied by his mother, shouts for joy after leaving a chartered airplane at Travis Air Force Base, California, following their evacuation from Vietnam, April 22, 1975

Maker
Date4/22/1975
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto with applied pigment
Dimensions8(?) x 6-5/8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
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Object number2024.325
Status
Not on view
Leatherneck Hits the Surf: a member of the U.S. Marine 9th expedition force makes a wet landing as he struggles ashore at Da Nang Bay in South Vietnam. The Marines landed by sea and air to beef up defenses at the vital Da Nang air base, March 8, 1965
Leatherneck Hits the Surf: a member of the U.S. Marine 9th expedition force makes a wet landing as he struggles ashore at Da Nang Bay in South Vietnam. The Marines landed by sea and air to beef up defenses at the vital Da Nang air base, March 8, 1965
Unknown Artist
3/8/1965
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
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
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
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
Emotions Take Over: Army Private Ronald Lockman, 23, of Philadelphia, hugs his mother, Mrs. Vivan Williams, during emotional press conference following his conviction and sentencing at San Francisco’s Presidio. Lockman was convicted of refusing to obey orders to go to Vietnam, and was sentenced to two and a half years at hard labor, November 1967
Emotions Take Over: Army Private Ronald Lockman, 23, of Philadelphia, hugs his mother, Mrs. Vivan Williams, during emotional press conference following his conviction and sentencing at San Francisco’s Presidio. Lockman was convicted of refusing to obey orders to go to Vietnam, and was sentenced to two and a half years at hard labor, November 1967
Slava Veder
11/1/1967
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
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
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
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
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