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A Look Back at the Vietnam War on the 35th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon

Posted Apr 30, 2010      

Editor's Warning. The Following photograph collection contains Some graphic violence and depictions of dead bodies

(AP) Today, April 30th, marks the 35th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon, When communist North Vietnamese force drove through tanks the form US-backed capital of South Vietnam, smashing through the Presidential Palace gates. The fall of Saigon marked the official end of the Vietnam War and the decadelong US campaign against communism in Southeast Asia. The conflict Claimed Some 58,000 American lives and an Estimated 3 million Vietnamese.
The war left divisions That Would take years to heal as Many South Vietnamese soldiers train Were feels to Communist re-education camps and Hundreds of milliers of Their relative Fled the country. 
In Vietnam today is called Expired Liberation Day and the government staged a parade down That the form Reunification Boulevard featured tank replicas and goose-stepping soldiers in white uniforms. Some 50,000 party cadres, army veterans and Laborers Gathered for the show, Many carrying red and gold Vietnamese flags and portraits of Ho Chi Minh, the father of Vietnam's revolution. In a reminder of how the Communist Party Retains a strong grip on the flow of information DESPITE the opening of the economy, foreign Journalists' Were forbidden from Conducting interviews along the parade route. The area sealed off from ordinary Was citoyens, Apparently due to security Concerns. 
The pictures below-offer a look back at the Vietnam War from the escalation of US involvement in the early 1960's to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

1

A South Vietnamese soldier holds a cocked pistol as he issues two Vietcong guerrillas captured Suspected in a weed-filled marsh in the southern Delta area in late August 1962. The Prisoners Were searched, bound and Questioned Before being white OnD off to join --other Detainees. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

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A US crewman runs from a crashed CH-21 Shawnee troop helicopter near the town of Ca Mau in the southern tip of South Vietnam, Dec. 11, 1962. Two helicopters crashed without serious injuries DURING a government raid on the Viet Cong-Infiltrated area . Both helicopters Were destroyed to keep them out of enemy hands. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

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3A Helmeted US Helicopter Crewchief, holding carbine watches ground movements of Vietnamese troops from above Pendant has Guerrillas Strike Against the Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta Area, January 2, 1963. The communist Viet Cong Claimed victory in the struggle in Vietnam Continuing After They shot down five US helicopters. An American officer Was killed and three American servicemen --other Were Injured in the action. (AP Photo) #

4

Caskets Containing the bodies of seven American crewmen killed in a helicopter crash on January 11, 1963 Were loaded aboard on a plane Monday, Jan. 14 for shipment home. Were the crewmen on board has crashed That H21 helicopter near a hut on an Island in the middle of one of the branches of the Mekong River, about 55 miles Southwest of Saigon. (AP Photo) #

5

Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death was Saigon street on June 11, 1963 to protest Alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo / Malcolm Browne, File) #

6

Flying at dawn, just over the jungle foliage, US C-123 aircraft concentré defoliant spray along power lines running entre Saigon and Dalat in South Vietnam, early in August 1963. The plane Were flying about 130 miles per hour over steep, hilly terrain, much of it Believed Infiltrated by the Viet Cong. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

7

A South Vietnamese Navy, Severely Wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, is comforted by a comrade in a sugar cane field at Duc Hoa, about 12 miles from Saigon, Aug. 5, 1963. A platoon of 30 Marines Was searching for Vietnamese communist guerrillas When A long burst of automatic fire killed one Marine and Wounded oven others. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

8

A father holds the body de son child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from Their armored vehicle March 19, 1964. The child Was killed as government guerrilla force Pursued Into a town near the Cambodian border. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

9

General William Westmoreland talks with troops of first battalion, 16th Regiment of the 2nd brigade of US First Division At Their positions near Bien Hoa in Vietnam, 1965. (AP Photo) #

10

The sun breaks through the dense jungle foliage around the embattled town of Binh Gia, 40 miles east of Saigon, in early January 1965, as South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisors, rest After a cold, damp and tense night of waiting in year ambush position for a Viet Cong attack That did not come. One hour later, as the possibility of an overnight attack by the Viet Cong diasappeared, the troops Moved out for long Reviews another, hot day hunting the elusive communist guerrillas in the jungles. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

11

Hovering helicopters for US Army Machine Gun fire Into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack Viet Cong camp was 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in Vietnam in March of 1965 . (AP Photo / Horst Faas, File) #

12

Injured Vietnamese recevoir aid As They lie on the street After a bomb explosion outside the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, March 30, 1965. Smoke rises from wreckage in the background. At least two Americans and several Vietnamese Were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

13

Capt. Donald R. Brown of Annapolis, Md., Advisor to the 2nd Battalion of the 46th Regiment Vietnamese, dashes from His helicopter to the cover of a rice paddy dike during an attack on Viet Cong in an area 15 miles west of Saigon on April 4 1965 DURING THE Vietnam War. Brown's counterpart, Capt. Di, order of the unit, rushes away in background With His radioman. The Vietnamese casualties Suffered 12 Before the field was taken. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

14

US soldiers are on the search for Viet Cong hideouts in a swampy jungle creek bed, June 6, 1965 at Trian Falls, Some 40 miles Northeast of Saigon, South Vietnam. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

15

The strain of battle for Dong Xoai is shown on the face of US Army Sgt. Philip Fink, an advisor to the Vietnamese Ranger battalion 52nd, shown June 12, 1965. The unit bore the brunt of Recapturing the jungle outpost from the Viet Cong. (AP Photo / Steve Stibbens) #

16

An unidentified US Army soldier wears a hand lettered "War Is Hell" slogan On His helmet, in Vietnam on June 18, 1965. (AP Photo / Horst Faas, File) #

17

South Vietnamese supply trucks take a detour around a destroyed bridge on the road to Pleiku on Route 19, July 18, 1965. The original bridge, and a temporary bridge Placed on top of it, Both Were destroyed by the Viet Cong. (AP Photo / Eddie Adams) #

18

Wounded Marine binds about the floor of a helicopter H34, August 19, 1965 as They Were Evacuated from the battle area on Van Tuong peninsula. (AP Photo) #

19

The Associated Press photographer Huynh Thanh My covers a Vietnamese battalion pinned down in a rice paddy about Mekong Delta Before He Was a month killed in battle on Oct. 10, 1965. (AP PHOTO) #

20

Elements of the US First Cavalry Air Mobile Division in a landing craft approach the beach at Qui Nhon, 260 miles Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, in Sept. 1965. Advance units of 20,000 new troops are being white lancé for a strike on the Viet Cong Pendant the Vietnam War. (AP Photo) #

21

Paratroopers of the US 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold Their automatic weapons above water As They cross a river in the rain DURING a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25.1965. The paratroopers HAD been searching the area for 12 days with no enemy contact. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

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Wounded US paratroopers are Helped by fellow soldiers to a medical evacuation helicopter on Oct. 5, 1965 DURING THE Vietnam War. 173rd Airborne Paratroopers of the Brigade's First Battalion Suffered Many casualties in the clash with Viet Cong guerrillas in the jungle of South Vietnam's "D" Zone, 25 miles Northeast of Saigon. (AP Photo) #

23

College students carrying pro-American anti-war signs heckle student Demonstrators protesting US involvement in Vietnam at the Boston Common in Boston, Ma., Oct. 16, 1965. (AP Photo) #

24

A US B-52 drops a load of stratofortress 750-pounds bombs over Vietnam a coastal area DURING THE Vietnam War, Nov. 5, 1965. (AP Photo / USAF) #

25

Chaplain John McNamara of Boston Makes the sign of the cross as he administers the last rites to photographer Dickey Chapelle in South Vietnam Nov. 4, 1965. Chapel Was covering a US Marine unit was fighting operation near Chu Lai for the National Observer When She Was Wounded gravement, along with oven Marines, by an exploding mine.She died in a helicopter en route to a hospital. She est devenu the first female war correspond to Be Killed in Vietnam, as well as the first American female Refer to Be Killed in action. Was her body with an honor guard repatriated consistant of six Marines and Navy She Was Given full burial. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

26

Berkeley-Oakland City, Calif. demonstraters march Against the war in Vietnam, December 1965. Calif. (AP Photo) #

27

A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near US troops on patrol in South Vietnam, Vietnam War DURING THE 1966. (AP Photo) #

28

A US paratrooper moves away After setting fire to house on the bank of Vaico Oriental River, 20 miles west of Saigon on Jan. 4, 1966 DURING a "scorched earth" operation Against the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. The 1st battalion of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Was moving through the area, Described as notorious Viet Cong territory. (AP Photo / Peter Arnett) #

29

Women and children crouch in a muddy canal As They take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai in Jan. of 1966 about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam. (AP Photo / Horst Faas, File) #

30

US Army helicopters providing <br> Support for US ground troops fly Into a staging area fifty miles Northeast of Saigon, Vietnam in January of 1966. (AP Photo / Henri Huet, File) #

31

First Cavalry Division Medic Thomas Cole, from Richmond, Va., One looks up With His uncovered eye as he continued to treat a Wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison Pell has Pendant January 1966 firefight in the Central Highlands entre US troops and a combined North Vietnamese and Viet Cong force. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

32

Weary After a third night of fighting Against North Vietnamese troops, US Marines crawl from foxholes Located south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, 1966. The helicopter shot down at left When It Was cam in to resupply the unit. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

33

Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes Against the Viet Cong rice paddies and mark the Orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Most of the area HAD-been abandoned by the Peasants Who used to farm on the land. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

34

In a sudden monsoon rain, share of a company of about 130 South Vietnamese soldiers regional moves downriver in a dawn attack sampans Pendant Against A Vietcong camp flooded in the Mekong Delta, about 13 miles Northeast of Cantho, we Jan. 10, 1966. A handful of guerrillas killed or reported about Were Wounded. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

35

Pfc. Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., Crawls through the mud of a rice paddy in January of 1966 Avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam, as troops of the US 1st Cavalry Division fight fierce 24-hour battle along the central coast. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

36

President Lyndon Johnson speaks DURING a televised address from the White House, Jan. 31, 1966 Announcing the resumption of bombing of targets in North Vietnam. The president, Who Was photographed from a television screen at the New York studios of NBC-TV, Said He Was Requesting Amb. Arthur Goldberg to call for an immediate meeting of the UN Security Council. (AP Photo / Marty Lederhandler) #

37

US troops carry the body of a fellow soldier across a rice paddy for evacuation helicopter near Bong Son in early February 1966. The soldier, a member of the 1st Air Cavalry Division, Was killed Pendant Operation Masher on South Vietnam's central coast. (AP Photo / Rick Merron) #

38

A helicopter lifts a Wounded American soldier was stretcher Pendant Operation Silver City in Vietnam, March 13, 1966. (AP Photo) #

39

Seen here are pickets Demonstrating Against the Vietnam War As They march through downtown Philadelphia, Pa, March 26, 1966. (AP Photo / Bill Ingraham) #

40

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division Wounded buddy carry through the jungle in May 1966. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

41

A helicopter hovers over the field, ready to load staff and equipment DURING Operation Masher in the Vietnam War, May 7, 1966. (AP Photo) #

42

A young paratrooper with a mud-smeared face stares Into the jungle in Vietnam on July 14, 1966 after fire fight with Viet Cong patrol in the morning. He is a member of C company, 2nd battalion, 173rd airborne brigade. (AP Photo / John Nance) #

43

A US Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter comes down in flames After being white hit by enemy ground fire Pendant Operation Hastings, just south of the Demilitarized Zone entre North and South Vietnam, July 15, 1966. The helicopter crashed and exploded on a hill, killing one crewman and 12 Marines. Three crewman escaped with serious burns.(AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

44

Pinned down by Viet Cong Machine Gun fire, a US medic looks over at a seriuosly Wounded comrade As They huddle behind a dike in a rice paddy near Phu Loi, South Vietnam, August 14, 1966. (AP Photo) #

45

A US infantryman from A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry caries a crying child from Cam Xe town After dropping a phosphorous grenade Into a bunker cleared of Civilians during an operation near the Michelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon, August 22, 1966. A platoon of the 1st Infantry Division raided the village, looking for snipers That HAD Inflicted casualties on the platoon. GIs Rushed about 40 Civilians out of the town artillery bombardment Before ensued. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

46

An American F-105 warplane is shot down and the pilot ejects and opens His parachute in this photo taken by North Vietnamese Photograper May 1966 on September Nam Vinh Phuc near, north of Hanoi. This picture is one of the MOST reconnu pictures taken by a North Vietnamese photographer DURING THE war. The pilot of the aircraft was taken hostage and Held in a Hanoi prison, from 1966 to 1973. (AP Photo / Pioneer Newspaper / May Nam) #

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Paratroopers of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade make Their Way Across the Song Be River in South Vietnam on the way to the jungle on the North Bank and into operation Sioux City in the D Zone on Oct. 4, 1966. Were Troopers and equipment flown in by helicopter to the central highlands area, the goal choppers couldn't land in the jungles D zone. The operation Began late in the week of September 25. (AP Photo) #

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US President Lydon B. Johnson reviews troops assembled in honor de son visit to the US base at Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1966 DURING THE war. Beside the President is Gen. William Westmoreland, Commander of the US Military Forces in Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

49

Empty artillery cartridges stack up at the artillery base at Da Soui, Some 60 miles northwest of Saigon, at the southern edge of War Zone C, on March 8, 1967. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

50

Three American marines sleep atop ammunition boxes DURING a break in the fighting at Gio Linh on April 2, 1967, just south of the demilitarized area in Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

51

A Wounded US soldier of the 1st Infantry Division, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, first aid Receives After being white rescued from a jungle battlefield south of the Cambodian border in Vietnam's war zone C, April 2, 1967. A reconnaissance platoon ran Into enemy bunkers , and Their recuers Were pinned down for four hours in fighting US That left seven dead and 42 Wounded. (AP Photo) #

52

Anti-Vietnam War Demonstrators fill Fulton Street in San Francisco on April 15, 1967. The five-mile march through the city Would end with a peace rally at Kezar Stadium. In the background is San Francisco City Hall. (AP Photo) #

53

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leads a crowd of 125,000 Vietnam War protesters in front of the United Nations in New York on April 15, 1967, as he voices a repeated demand to "Stop the bombing." (AP Photo) #

54

A US Marine sergeant issues directions to a group of newly arrived soldiers replacement embattled atop Hill 881, below-the demilitarized area near the Laotian border, South Vietnam, in May 1967. The men Were flown by helicopter to enforce in US Marine lines badly Weakened by After several days of casualties fighting for the Strategic hills. (AP Photo) #

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A member of the Wounded 1st Plt. Company "C," 25th Infantry Division, is waiting Helped to a UH-1D "Iroquois" helicopter in Vietnam, May 10, 1967 DURING THE Vietnam War. (AP Photo) #

56

US Marines of the 3rd Battallion, 4th Marines, crouch in the cover of a pagoda entrance as Their patrol moves through a town along the Ben Hai river in the southern sector of the DMZ in South Vietnam, on May 22, 1967. The pagoda walls are richly decorated with images of dragons and snakes. (AP Photo / Kim Ki Sam) #

57

American infantrymen crowd Into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at em DURING a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D on June 15, 1967. (AP Photo / Henri Huet, File) #

58

Medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., Gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying soldier in war zone D, about 50 miles Northeast of Saigon, June 17, 1967. Thirty-one men of the 1st Infantry Division reported about Were guerrilla killed in the ambush, with more than 100 Wounded. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

59

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (second from left), and Gen Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, huddle in one corner while Ellsworth Bunker, US Ambassador to South Vietnam (second from right) and Gen. William C. Westmoreland, right, order of US Forces in Vietnam, go over a postponement at the Beginning of briefings for the secretary at US Army Headquarters on Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Friday, July 6, 1967 in Saigon. (AP Photo / Cung) #

60

Defense Secretary McNamara and Gen. William Westmoreland, order US Forces in Vietnam, sit with muffler-type radio earphones As They ride in helicopter Toward the DMZ is McNamara's first field trip Pendant His current visit to Vietnam, July 10, 1967. (AP Photo) #

61

Vietnamese Navy boats laden with Vietnamese Army infantrymen swing along the river Although Tre to launch a search task Some 50 miles south of Saigon in the Delta's Kien Hoa Meking Province, July 11, 1967. Viet Cong guerrillas fired on the flotlla from the brushy shoreline, but no major contacts Was Made. (AP Photo) #

62

William Morgan Hardman is interrogated by North Vietnamese military autorités in front of Hoan Kien Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug. 24, 1967. Hardman, a US pilot, Was captured After His Was shot down flat. (AP Photo) #

63

This general view shows a live hit with North Vietnam 122 mm shell explosion in a US ammunition bunker of 175 mm cannon at Gio Linh locations, next to demilitarization entre area north and south Vietnam, Sept. 1967, DURING THE Vietnam War. (AP Photo) #

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The address is muddy bunker and the mailman wears a flak vest as CPL. Jesse D. Hittson of Levelland, Texas, Reaches Out For His address at the US Marine outpost Con Thien two miles south of the demilitarized area in South Vietnam on Oct. 4, 1967. (AP Photo / Kim Ki Sam) #

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Anti-War Demonstrators gather opposite the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, Oct. 21, 1967. In the background is the Reflecting Pool, the base of the Washington Monument, and barely visible through the haze is the Capitol Building. (AP Photo) #

66

Part of a crowd of pro-Vietnam War Demonstrators hold up signs and American flags in the support of US policy in Vietnam in Wakefield, Mass., On Oct. 29, 1967. The demonstration Was Organized by 19-year-old Christopher Paul P. has Wakefield High School Senior Who est devenu "burned up" by anti-Vietnam War Demonstrators. (AP Photo / J. Walter Green) #

67

Local members of the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle club form a human pyramid to wave flag and lead cheers at rally the Supporting American men fighting in Vietnam. A crowd Estimated by police ever near 25,000 turned out for the rally Held this on October 29, 1967 on Wakefield, Massachusetts, common. (AP Photo / J Walter Green) #

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US troops move Toward the crest of Hill 875 at Dak To in November 1967 After 21 days of fighting, at least 285 Pendant qui Americans Were Believed killed. The hill in the central highlands, of little apparent Strategic Value to the North Vietnamese, Was nevertheless the focus of intense fighting and heavy Losses to Both Sides. (AP Photo) #

69

General views of the mountain of Dak destroyed his new life Hamlet, December 7, 1967 in Vietnam. Vietcong killed 114 villagers of the Wounded and 47. (AP Photo) #

70

More than 12,000 US Marines Into Crowd year outdoor amphitheater to watch comedian Bob Hope and Phil Crosby open USO Christmas Show Hope's turn at Da Nang, Vietnam, with Raquel Welch and singer Barbara McNair, left, Dec. 19, 1967. Crosby, wearing a wig, caries a "Make Love Not War" sign. (AP Photo) #

71

US Marines pass a Catholic church As They patrol near Danang, Vietnam, Vietnam War in DURING THE 1968. (AP Photo) #

72

Two US military policemen helped a fellow MP Wounded Pendant fighting in the US Embassy compound in Saigon, Jan. 31, 1968 at the Beginning of the Tet Offensive. A Viet Cong suicide squad Seized control of hand of the compound and Held it for about six hours Before They Were killed or captured. (AP Photo / Hong Seong-Chan) #

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South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the National Police, His pistol fires Into the head of Viet Cong Suspected officer Nguyen Van Lem, Also Known As Bay Lop was Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive on Feb. 1, 1968. (AP Photo / Eddie Adams) #

74

President Johnson prepared to open a news conference February 2, 1968 in the White House Cabinet Room. He Told reporters que la phases of the military offensive in Vietnam Communist HAD failed. (AP Photo) #

75

A large section of rubble is All That Remained in this one square block area of Saigon on Feb. 5, 1968. After fierce fighting Tet Offensive. Rockets and grenades, combined with fires, laid waste to the area. An Quang Pagoda, Viet Cong headquarters of rental DURING THE fighting, is at the top of the picture. (AP Photo / Johner) #

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First Lt. Gary D. Jackson of Dayton, Ohio, has caries Wounded South Vietnamese Ranger to an ambulance Feb. 6, 1968 After a brief battle with the aim intense Viet Cong Tet Offensive DURING THE near the National Sports Stadium in the Cholon section of Saigon. (AP Photo / Dang Van Phuoc) #

77

A US Marine shows a post written on the back de son flack vest at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam on Feb. 21, 1968 DURING THE Vietnam War. The quote reads, "Caution: Being a Marine in Khe Sanh May Be hazardous to your health." Khe Sanh HAD-been subject to rocket and artillery attacks Increased from the North Vietnamese troops in the area. (AP Photo / Rick Merron) #

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American soldiers take shelter in a sandbagged bunker as North Vietnamese rockets hit the US Marine base at Khe Sanh on Feb. 24, 1968. (AP Photo / Rick Merron) #

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An American C-123 cargo plane burns After being white hit by mortars communist while taxiing on the Navy post at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam on March 1, 1968. (AP Photo / Peter Arnett) #

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US Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese positions Defending store DURING THE Khe Sanh siege of the US Marine base, March 1968. The photographer, a South Vietnamese officer, Was Injured When badly Even Closer bombs fell we Subsequent pass by US planes.(AP Photo / ARVN, Maj. Nguyen Ngoc Hanh) #

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Riverine Assault boats, Operation of the Riverine Force of the US 9th Division, glide along the My Tho River, an arm of the Mekong Delta near Dong Tam, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, Vietnam, March 15, 1968. (AP Photo) #

82

Bodies lay in the road leading from the town of My Lai, South Vietnam, Following The Massacre of Civilians on March 16.1968. Within hours oven, 504 men, women and children Were killed in the My Lai hamlets in one of the US military's blackest days. (AP Photo / FILE / Ronald L. Haeberle, Life Magazine) #

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Police struggle with anti Vietnam War Demonstrators outside the Embassy of the United States in Grosvenor Square, London, Mar. 17, 1968. (AP Photo) #

84

View of the Anti-Vietnam war demonstration Held in Trafalgar Square, London, on March 17.1968. (AP Photo) #

85

US President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses the nation in a radio and television broadcast from His desk at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 31, 1968. In His speech the president Talked about plan to de-escalate the war in North Vietnam and his plan not to run for re-election. (AP Photo) #

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As fellow troopers helped Wounded buddies, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne, guides a medical evacuation helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties DURING a five-day patrol of Hue, South Vietnam, in April, 1968. (AP Photo / Art Greenspon) #

87

Pfc. Fordona Juan of Puerto Rico, First Cavalry Division trooper, shakes hands with US Marine Cpl. James Hellebuick over barbed wire at the perimeter of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, early April 1968. The meeting marked the first overland link-up entre troops of the 1st Cavalry and encircled the Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. (AP Photo / Holloway) #

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Air Cavalry troops in Operation Pegasus Taking share are shown walking around and watching bombing was far hill line on April 14, 1968 at Special Forces camp at Lang Vei in Vietnam. (AP Photo / Richard Merron) #

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Anti-Vietnam War protesters march down Fifth Avenue to near 81st Street in New York City on April 27, 1968 in protest of the US involvement in the Vietnamese war. The Demonstrators Were en route to nearby Central Park for mass "Stop the war" rally. (AP Photo) #

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Smoke rises from the southwestern portion of Saigon on May 7, 1968 as residents stream across a bridge leaving the capital to escape heavy fighting entre les Viet Cong and South Vietnamese soldiers. (AP Photo) #

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This is a general view of the first meeting entre the United States delegation, left, and North Vietnam delegation on the Vietnam peace talks at the international conference hall in Paris, May 13, 1968. (AP Photo) #

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A supply helicopter comes in for a landing on a hilltop forming hand of Fire Support Base 29, west of Dak To in South Vietnam's central highlands on June 3, 1968. Around the base are fire burnt out trees Caused by heavy air strikes from fighting entre North Vietnamese and American troops. (AP Photo) #

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A helicopter full of Marines heading out on patrol lifts off the airstrip at the Khe Sanh Combat Base on June 27, 1968 in Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

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US 25th Infantry Division troops check the entrance to a tunnel complex Vietcong They Discovered we sweep northwest of Their division headquarters at Cu Chi on Sept. 7, 1968 in Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

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A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam in April of 1969. (AP Photo / Horst Faas, File) #

96

At a hilltop firebase west of Chu Lai in Vietnam, a huge army "Chinook" helicopter prepared to lift a conked-out smaller one to a base for repairs, April 27, 1969. The firebase Was named LZ and West Was manned by the troopers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade forming portion of the American Division. The smaller helicopter - a Huey UH-ID - Developed HAD icts engine trouble so called Expired crew chief in the local aerial towing service. One sturdy nylon strap to the chopper's winch and the two Were off. (AP Photo / Oliver Noonan) #

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A small boy holds His younger brother and looks at the Remains of What Was His ounce village, Tha Son, South Vietnam, 45 miles Northwest of Saigon, Vietnam on June 15, 1969. He and his family Fled the town Viet Cong troops When Infiltrated . Counter-attacking allied troops used artillery and bombs to push the Viet Cong out. The allies Had Told the people to leave Their homes Began Before the dam. (AP Photo / Oliver Noonan) #

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A medic lights a cigarette for Spec / 5 Gary Davies of Scranton, Pa., Awaiting evacuation by helicopter from Ben Het in South Vietnam Where He Was Wounded, June 27, 1969. (AP Photo / Oliver Noonan) #

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Banners of appreciation from the Vietnamese decorate the dock at a farewell ceremony Danang Where Was Held by the Vietnamese Government for Departing Marines of the 1st Battalion / 9th Regiment, July 14, 1969. (AP Photo) #

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Some of the 300 troops of the 9th Infantry Division scheduled for departure from South Vietnam line up to board aircraft bound for Hawaii, August 27, 1969. (AP Photo) #

101

Supporters of the Vietnam Moratorium binds in the Sheep Meadow of New York's Central Park Nov. 14, 1969 as Hundreds of black and white balloons float skyward. A Spokesman for the moratorium committee Said the black balloons représentée Who Americans died in Vietnam under the Nixon administration, and the white balloons Symbolized the number of Americans Who Would die if the war Continued. (AP Photo / J. Spencer Jones) #

102

Vietnamese soldiers of the 21st Recon Company rush to board waiting Huey choppers in the rice paddies near Their forward command post in South Vietnam on Nov. 14, 1969. The men are To Be Transported Into the interior of the U Minh forest, the broad swamp and forest and marshy area at the southern tip of Vietnam, along Considered to Be a VC strong-hold. For the previous month, an operation called Expired all Vietnamese "Operation u Minh" had-been Attempting to drive the VC and NVA regulars from the area. It Was the second operation Such dans le year. (AP Photo / Godfrey) #

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Demonstrators Their show sign of protest as ROTC cadets parade at Ohio State University in May of 1970 has Pendant ceremony in Columbus, Ohio DURING THE Vietnam War. (AP Photo) #

104

Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio on May 4, 1970. National Guardsmen fired HAD Into a crowd of Demonstrators, killing oven. (AP Photo / John Filo) #

105

Photographer Larry Burrows, far left, Struggles through elephant grass and the rotorwash of an American helicopter evacuation as he helps to carry a Wounded GIs buddy was stretcher from the jungle to the helicopter in Mimot, Cambodia, May 4, 1970. The evacuation Was DURING THE US DURING THE foray Into Cambodia Vietnam War. (AP Photo / Henri Huet) #

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American flag-bearing construction workers, Angered by Mayor John Lindsay anti-war apparent's sympathies, lead Hundreds of New York City workers the Supporting US war policy in Vietnam in a demonstration inside a barricaded area near Wall Street in lower Manhattan, May 12, 1970. More than 1,000 Police Were on the szene as possible to prevent prevention clashes with anti-war student Demonstrators, Who Were Among office workers along the barricades. (AP Photo) #

107

With a helmet Declaring "Peace," a soldier of the 1st Cavarly Division, 12th Cavalry, 2nd Battalion, casual June 24, 1970 Before pulling out of Fire Support Base Speer, six miles inside the Cambodian border. Were the troops returning to South Vietnam After Operations Against enemy sanctuaries in Cambodia. (AP Photo) #

108

Opposed to the Vietnam war veterans assembled on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 1971 to protest the US action in Indochina. Addressing the crowd is Rep.Bella Abzug (D-NY), wearing hat. (AP Photo) #

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John Kerry, 27-year-old train navy lieutenant Who heads the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Receives Support from a gallery of peace Demonstrators and tourists as he testifies Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, DC, April 22, 1971. (AP Photo / Henry Griffin) #

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South Vietnamese troops move out on patrol from Firebase Fuller, a hilltop position oven miles south of the demilitarized zone Vietnam on July 20, 1971. (AP Photo / Jacques Tonnaire) #

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A South Vietnamese Navy caries the dead body of a comrade killed on Route 1, about seven miles south of Quang Tri Sunday, April 30, 1972. Marines Were fighting to reopen the road in order to break the North Vietnamese siege of the provincial capital. (AP Photo / Koichiro Morita) #

112

South Vietnamese Forces After follow terrified children, Including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, As They run down Route 1 near Trang Bang aerial napalm attack After one year Suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane Accidentally ict flaming napalm dropped on South Vietnamese troops and Civilians. The terrified girl HAD ripped off her burning clothes while Fleeing. The children from left to right are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, Who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins ​​Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. Behind Them are soldiers of the Vietnam Army 25th Division. (AP Photo / Nick Ut) #

113

South Vietnamese parents, With Their five children, ride along Highway 13 southwards Fleeing from An Loc Toward Saigon on June 19, 1972. (AP Photo / Nick Ut) #

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Lightly Wounded Civilians and troops-Attempt to Push Their Way aboard a South Vietnamese evacuation helicopter hovering over a stretch of Highway 13 near An Loc in Vietnam on June 25, 1972. (AP Photo) #

115

A line of South Vietnamese troops move along a street in Devastated Quang Tri City as the ongoing battle for the provincial capital on July 28, 1972. Government Forces Were the Midst of a campaign to retake the northern South Vietnamese city qui Was captured by enemy strengths two Months Earlier. (AP Photo) #

116

Then presidential adviser Dr. Henry Kissinger tells a White House news conference That "peace is at hand in Vietnam" on Oct. 26, 1972. (AP Photo) #

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Police in Da Nang cover the eyes of a woman Who Was Alleged year member of a Vietcong terrorist unit on Oct. 26, 1972. The woman Was captured carrying 15 hand grenades, DURING THE previous night's battle in Da Nang. (AP Photo) #

118

The flag comes down at the US Army base at Long Binn, 12 miles Northeast of Saigon, as the base is turned over to the South Vietnamese Army, Nov. 11, 1972. It Was at one time the Largest American base in Vietnam with a peak of 60,000 employees in 1969. (AP Photo) #

119

Unaware of incoming enemy round, a South Vietnamese photographer made ​​this picture of a South Vietnamese trooper dug in at Van Hai, South of Hue, Nov. 20, 1972. The camera caught the explosion Subsequent Before the soldier HAD time to react. The Incident Occurred DURING Continuing one of many small scale fire fights in South Vietnam, DESPITE talk of a ceasefire Forthcoming. (AP Photo) #

120

President Nixon Confers with Henry A. Kissinger in New York on Nov. 25, 1972, presidential adviser partner after the returned from a week of secret negotiations in Paris with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. Documents released Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, from the Nixon years shed new light on just how much the Nixon White House struggled with public Growing unrest over the protracted war in Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

121

An American POW was barred doorport though talks to fellow POWs at a detention camp in Hanoi in 1973. (AP Photo) #

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The four delegations sit at the table DURING THE first signing ceremony of the agreement to end the Vietnam War at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, Jan. 27, 1973. Clockwise, from foreground, delegations of the Unites States, the Provisonal Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

123

John S. McCain III is escorted by Lt. Cmdr. Jay Jr. Cup, Public Relations Officer, March 14, 1973 to Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport partner after the POW Was released. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) #

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Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by His family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., As he returns home from the Vietnam War, March 17, 1973. In the lead is Stirm's daughter Lorrie, 15, Followed By his Robert, 14 ; daughter Cynthia, 11; Loretta wife and son Roger, 12. (AP Photo / Sal Veder) #

125

An iron door opens on a compound of the "Hanoi Hilton" prison, Where the French once locked up Political Prisoners, shown March 18, 1973. When 33 Americans Were freed from it days Earlier, all the cells Were empty for the first time in more than eight years. Journalists Were allowed to visit the jail, located On in downtown Hanoi days after It Was emptied. (AP Photo / Horst Fass) #

126

A South Vietnamese soldier Rests His Eyes at a lonely outpost Northeast of Kontum, 270 miles north of Saigon, March 25, 1974. The hill Overlooks a vital North Vietnamese supply road and Is located rear of the szene Reviews some of the fighting in South Vietnam Bloodiest since the cease fire. The soldiers on the hill say the enemy is "all around 'em." (AP Photo / Nick Ut) #

127

Mrs. Evelyn Grubb, of Colonial Heights, Va., Left, follows her husband Wilmers coffin at Arlington National Cemetery, Thursday, April 4, 1974 Washington, DC Col. Grubb's Name Was released by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as one of the Prisoners of War Who died in captivity. Mrs. Grubb holds the hands of two of her sounds, Roy, 7, right, and Stephen, 10. The rest of the group is unidentified. (AP Photo / Henry Burroughs) #

128

Riot Police block path of Hundreds of anti-government Demonstrators Who Sought to suburban parade from Saigon to the city center on Thursday, Oct. 31, 1974. (AP Photo) #

129

A villager woman holding a small rock yells at a South Vietnamese military policeman on Feb. 10, 1975 DURING a confrontation near Hoa Hao in the Western Mekong Delta in Vietnam. Villagers HAD Erected barricades along the highway to protest a government order disbanding the private army of a Buddhist sect in the area. (AP Photo) #

130

South Vietnamese troops fill available space Every ship has Evacuating em from Thuan An beach, near Hue, Da Nang to Communist troops have advanced in March, 1975. (AP Photo / Cung) #

131

A refugee clutches her baby as a government helicopter gunship caries em away near Tuy Hoa, 235 miles Northeast of Saigon on April 22, 1975. They Were Among milliers Fleeing from Communist advances. (AP Photo / Nick Ut) #

132

Hundreds of vehicles of all spells fill an empty area as the Refugees fleeing vehicles in the near Tuy Hoa break in the central coastal area of South Vietnam, Saturday, March 23, 1975 Following the evacuation of Banmethuout --other and population centers in the highlands to the west. (AP Photo / Ut) #

133

Jubilation as a C-141 takes off from Hanoi on March 28, 1973 heading home. (GNS Photo by Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense) #

134

A South Vietnamese caries His father son and a bag of household possessions as he leaves town near Trang Bom His on Route 1 northwest of Saigon April 23, 1975. The area politically and militarily Was Becoming unstable as advanced communist strengths, just days before the Fall of Saigon. (AP Photo / Mhan KY) #

135

South Vietnamese and western troopers TV Newsmen run for cover as North Vietnamese mortar round explodes on Newport Bridge in the outskirts of Saigon on Monday, April 28, 1975. (AP Photo / Hoanh) #

136

Joined session of South Vietnam's National Assembly votes on Sunday, April 28, 1975 to ask President Tran Van Huong His office to turn over to Gen. Duong Van Minh. The assembly made ​​a move in the 11th hour to Attempt to Negotiate a settlement with the Communist forces. (AP Photo / Errington) #

137

US President Gerald Ford Discusses the Vietnam evacuation of Americans by telephone with a senior aid while Mrs. Betty Ford looks on in the living quarters of the White House in a picture released by the White House, Tuesday, April 29, 1975 in Washington. (AP Photo) #

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Americans and Vietnamese run for a US Marine helicopter in Saigon DURING THE evacuation of the city, April 29, 1975. (AP Photo) #

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US Navy aboard the USS staff Blue Ridge push a helicopter Into the sea off the coast of Vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights from Saigon, Tuesday, April 29, 1975. The helicopter HAD Fleeing the carried Vietnamese Saigon as North Vietnamese force closed in on the capital. (AP Photo / jt) #

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A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, April 30, 1975 signifying the fall of South Vietnam. (AP Photo) #

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Evacuees mount a staircase to board an American helicopter near the American Embasy in Saigon. (Hubert van Es / AFP / Getty Images) #

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