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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
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

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Date8/17/1966
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto with airbrushing
Dimensions7 x 8-5/8 inches
Credit LineGift of Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
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Object number2024.276
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
On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967
On a Motorbike Built for one: Vietnamese father loads his five youngsters on his motorcycle and sets out for a spin over the streets of Saigon, January 1, 1967
Dang Van Phuoc
1/1/1967
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Refugees Flee From North Vietnamese: Scores of refugees pour out of the Tri Tam district town of Khiem Hanh on Thursday, March 13th, 1975, southward to South Vietnamese government lines. The town, 40 miles, northwest of Saigon, was overrun by North Vietnamese on Wednesday
Dang Van Phuoc
3/13/1975
Bound For The Laos Front: Laotian government troops and their artillery weapons speed over a dusty road on the way north toward the royal capital of Luang Prabang. They were part of a mass movement toward the front lines to face Communist-backed rebel troops threatening the area in the current civil war, January 1961
Bound For The Laos Front: Laotian government troops and their artillery weapons speed over a dusty road on the way north toward the royal capital of Luang Prabang. They were part of a mass movement toward the front lines to face Communist-backed rebel troops threatening the area in the current civil war, January 1961
Fred Waters
1/1/1961
A Cypress Swamp
A Cypress Swamp
Walker Evans
1941 (negative, printed 1980)
Just Waiting: a veteran of fighting both against Israeli forces and Palestinian guerrillas, 20-year-old Emad Ismail relaxes on cot in bunker along the frontier of Jordan;s border with Israel. "I love my king," says the young soldier. "I want to be alongside him in our fight with the Israelis for the return of the West Bank," January 14, 1970
Just Waiting: a veteran of fighting both against Israeli forces and Palestinian guerrillas, 20-year-old Emad Ismail relaxes on cot in bunker along the frontier of Jordan;s border with Israel. "I love my king," says the young soldier. "I want to be alongside him in our fight with the Israelis for the return of the West Bank," January 14, 1970
Eddie Adams
1/14/1970
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
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Barbara Pliskow (left), 37, of Detroit is escorted by a sheriff's deputy after her arrest Friday at the Detroit airport as authorities broke up what they said was a plot to commandeer a jetliner to fly two jailed Black Panthers to a foreign country. Miss Pliskow was arrested as she threw a package containing two sticks of dynamite as she and 54 other passengers were being led from a plane for a search, Detroit, Michigan, September 1971
Unknown Artist
9/1/1971
Enfans, croyez moi, ne joues pas avec ces armes la (Listen, Children, don't play with these weapons)
Enfans, croyez moi, ne joues pas avec ces armes la (Listen, Children, don't play with these weapons)
J. J. Grandville
April 1834
Time Off: their hammocks lung in a pagoda here, these Vietnamese soldiers relax, August 3rd, during their search and destroy mission around this town. The Vietnamese met only minor resistance during their operation, August 10, 1970
Time Off: their hammocks lung in a pagoda here, these Vietnamese soldiers relax, August 3rd, during their search and destroy mission around this town. The Vietnamese met only minor resistance during their operation, August 10, 1970
Dieter Ludwig
8/10/1970
Turkish Cypriot State Declaration: Turkish refugees in Turkish school during eruption following the February 13 declaration. They were shot at as they crossed the Greek Sector of the city to reach the school. The older people were able to stay in camp beds most of the time, Nicosia, Cyprus
Turkish Cypriot State Declaration: Turkish refugees in Turkish school during eruption following the February 13 declaration. They were shot at as they crossed the Greek Sector of the city to reach the school. The older people were able to stay in camp beds most of the time, Nicosia, Cyprus
Leonard Freed
1975
Some Said You Were the Spitting Image of Evil
Some Said You Were the Spitting Image of Evil
Carrie Mae Weems
1995 - 1996