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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
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

Date7/1/1967
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
Dimensions6(?) x 7(?) inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
Object number2024.329
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