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While the Vietnam War raged — roughly two decades’ worth of bloody and world-changing years — compelling images made their way out of the combat zones. On television screens and magazine ...
- See 21 Iconic Photos of The Vietnam War
The war ended 40 years ago, on April 30, 1975. An American...
- Made History
L arry Burrows was a seasoned veteran of the Vietnam War...
- Alice Gabriner
A Photographer's Personal Look at Vietnam 40 Years After the...
- My Father's Vietnam
As I watched Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s illuminating...
- See 21 Iconic Photos of The Vietnam War
Oct 25, 2017 · See 44 rare and frank images of the Vietnam War from the perspective of military photographers. These photos show the thrill and terror of combat, the agony of waiting, and the reality of the conflict.
- John Kuroski
- Search And Destroy.
- Indochina / Laos / Cambodia / Vietnam: United States Air Force Boeing B-52 Stratofortress releasing a payload of bombs over Indochina as part of 'Operation Arc Light' (1965-1973), c. 1968.
- US Infantry, Vietnam.
- Children Flee From Their Homes.
Apr 25, 2018 · See the powerful and brutally honest scenes from the Vietnam War captured by British photographer Larry Burrows, who died in 1971. The photos show the humanity and inhumanity of the conflict, as well as the cost of war for soldiers and civilians.
- Buzzfeed News Photo Essay Editor
- Buddhist Monk Self-Immolates
- Shocking Execution
- Deadliest Year For American Soldiers in Vietnam
- LBJ and Family Watching Protests
- Kent State Shootings
- 'The Terror of War'
- Airlift Operation After Fall of Saigon
On June 11, 1963, a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc sat calmly in a busy intersection near Siagon’s Presidential Palace as a fellow monk doused him with gasoline. After saying a short prayer, Thich Quang Duc lit a match and dropped it into his lap, instantly engulfing his body in flames. Images of the monk’s stoic self-immolation, taken by AP j...
More than 50 years later, this image still has the power to startle and sicken. It was published on the front page of newspapers like The New York Timesin February 1968, days into the Tet Offensive, massive coordinated attacks by the North Vietnamese government. In the photo, a South Vietnamese police chief calmly executes a Vietcong fighter in the...
1968 was the deadliest year for American soldiers in Vietnam, and this image, captured by freelance photographer Art Greenspon, summed up the tremendous cost being paid by young men fighting in what increasingly felt like a futile war. The sense of brotherhood in the photo is palpable, as is the sense of anguish and desperation. Nearly half of the ...
Yoichi Okamoto was the very first chief White House photographer, hired by President Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto was given unfettered access to the president, as shown in this incredibly intimate moment captured inside the Johnsons’ bedroom at their family ranch in Stonewall, Texas. The president and First Lady Ladybird Johnson are watching coverage of...
On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon authorized the American invasion of Cambodia, a neutral country bordering Vietnam. Americans were deeply divided over the war, and Nixon’s decision sparked angry protests on college campuses, including Kent Statein Ohio, where protestors burned down the ROTC building. On May 4, 1970, National Guard troops ...
The title of this photo says it all, “The Terror of War.” Vietnamese-American photographer Nick Ut won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1972 image of innocent children fleeing an accidental napalm attack on their village. Front and center is nine-year-old Kim Phuc, naked and badly burned by the American chemical weapon. When Ut realized the extent of her i...
On April 29, 1975, the fall of Saigonwas imminent. Panic engulfed the streets of the South Vietnamese capital as North Vietnamese troops encircled the city. American diplomats and journalists were ordered to evacuate Saigon immediately, and scores of South Vietnamese citizens crowded outside the U.S. Embassy in hopes of boarding one of the Marine h...
- Dave Roos
Oct 24, 2013 · The Things They Photographed. The Vietnam War gave photographers unprecedented access to soldiers and their work. Carrying lighter equipment than ever before and granted front-line access, they...
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