Photographer unknown, May 8th, 1971: Near Camp Eagle, headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division, an aerial view of a peace symbol probably made by U.S. troops with a bulldozer.
Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic South Vietnamese government.
German photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas, March 1965: U.S. Army helicopters lay down cover fire over South Vietnamese troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp
Photographer/Date unknown: A South Vietnamese woman sobs over the loss of her deceased husband, who was discovered in a mass grave.
Daniel Camus and Jean Péraud, March 16th, 1954: French paratroopers descend at Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements.
Henri Huet, September 1966: U.S. Marines south of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) after a night of fighting North Vietnamese troops, in which the supply chopper seen in the picture was shot down.
September 25th, 1965: in the jungle area of Ben Cat, U.S. paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, carry their weapons above water in the rain while they search
Henri Huet, May 14th, 1966: The body of a U.S. soldier killed in battle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter.
Photo by New Zealand journalist Peter Gregg Arnett, April 10th, 1965: Soldiers arriving at Red Beach at Da Nang.
Photographer/Date unknown: A wounded paratrooper at the base camp of Shau Valley awaits a medical evacuation, in agonizing pain.
The Vietnam War As Seen By Associated Press Photographers
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