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Label TextThis documentary image was taken for publication in a newspaper or magazine during the Vietnam-American War (1955-1975). The Vietnam War is often referred to as the first “living room war,” as it was widely covered on television and in printed media. At this time cameras were smaller and developed film could be sent via phone lines or satellite, thus hitting news desks faster than was possible in previous conflicts. In this era, photojournalists had an incredible impact on shaping the public opinion of the wa
Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 6504100113
DimensionsOverall: 5 5/8 x 9 in. (14.3 x 22.9 cm)
Accession Number 2025.312
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Hilltop Hawks: U.S. marines, some stripped to the waist, go about the business of manning their hawk anti-aircraft missiles ready for action atop Hill 327 overlooking the Da Nang Air Base in South Viet Nam. Three missiles are mounted at left, ready for action, with three others on a carriers, right, ready for loading on the launcher shown April 10, 1965
Image Not Available for Hilltop Hawks: U.S. marines, some stripped to the waist, go about the business of manning their hawk anti-aircraft missiles ready for action atop Hill 327 overlooking the Da Nang Air Base in South Viet Nam. Three missiles are mounted at left, ready for action, with three others on a carriers, right, ready for loading on the launcher shown April 10, 1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Rick Doerring: If There Is No Ready Answer, If There Is No Logical Explanation For the Pain of Those Dying or the Fear of Those Who Are Ill, For the Grief of Those Left Behind — If There is No Answer, There Is for Us Assuredly a Response. We Must Love Eac
Tilly Woodward
1995
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Missile
Ed Paschke
1997
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Triumphal Procession of the Emperor Maximillian (Plate 128: End of the Baggage Carriers with the Provisions Wagon)
Albrecht Altdorfer
1517-1518
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Battery in Action, from Various Caprices on a Military Theme
Stefano Della Bella
ca. 1641
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Handlung (Action), from "Ein Handschuh (A Glove)"
Max Klinger
1880-1881
Image Not Available for Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 1968
Camouflaged Antiaircraft Gun in Cambodia: A camouflaged truck with an antiaircraft gun mounted in the back is shown on the Cambodian side of the Kompong Trabek River across from the South Vietnamese border. Scene is not far from where Cambodia government claimed U.S. and South Vietnamese forces made an attack last Thursday, January 23, 1968
1968
Image Not Available for U.S. Guns Change Hands: American troops stand at attention as a contingent of South Vietnamese soldiers marches forward to take command of six 105mm howitzers during a turnover ceremony in Da Nang, South Vietnam, November 12, 1969. The guns had been manned by men of battery, 6th battalion, 108th artillery group
U.S. Guns Change Hands: American troops stand at attention as a contingent of South Vietnamese soldiers marches forward to take command of six 105mm howitzers during a turnover ceremony in Da Nang, South Vietnam, November 12, 1969. The guns had been manned by men of battery, 6th battalion, 108th artillery group
1969
Image Not Available for Making an Adjustment: a ground crewman makes an adjustment to a rocket before installing it aboard a bomber making strikes over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea recently, on Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam, January 15, 1972
Making an Adjustment: a ground crewman makes an adjustment to a rocket before installing it aboard a bomber making strikes over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos from the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea recently, on Yankee Station off the coast of Vietnam, January 15, 1972
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anti-Aircraft Gunner, 1941-45, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anti-Tank Task: South Korea: Pfc. Billie Harrell (left) of Griffin, Georgia, and Pvt. Morgan Hannan of Columbus, Mississippi, lie behind their “tank antidote,” the 3.5 and 2.7 bazookas, on the Naktong River front. Late reports had yanks on the offensive on three Korean fronts, August 14, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
La Mariée mise à nu par ses Célibataires, Même (Boîte verte) (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box))
Marcel Duchamp
1934
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Gunner Loading Ammunition, 1941-45, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003