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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 6507010566
DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (17.1 x 21 cm)
Accession Number 2024.287
Classificationsphotograph
Face Of The Enemy: A Viet Cong soldier, captured during an ambush of government troops near Cheo Reo, looks apprehensively at his captors as he awaits interrogation, July 1st, 1965. The 18-year-old guerrilla was one of two prisoners taken by government troops. Heavy casualties were inflicted by both sides in the fire fight that followed the ambush
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
U.S. Army Lt. James Gleason, a bandage over a head wound, talks to fellow soldiers after surviving a heavy Viet Cong ambush near Cheo Reo in the central highlands of Vietnam. Gleason and other Americans were advising a Vietnamese force which was to evacuate a small town near Cheo Reo when the guerrillas attacked the motorized convoy. Four Americans and about 50 Vietnamese soldiers were killed in the attack, June 30, 1965
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A dead Viet Cong lies in a pit as U.S. Marines fire on Communist positions here December 10th, 1965. The Marines entered the battle to rescue a battalion of government troops almost wiped out by the Viet Cong. Thousands of U.S. Marines from the 7th fleet poured ashore and trapped a Viet Cong out of 1,500 men in the largest operation for the Marines in the conflict, Hoi An, South Vietnam
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Wonsan, Korea: Marine Corps troops assemble on the beach before moving northward in pursuit of North Korean troops. Part of these Marines have been used in mopping up bypassed North Koreans who are making guerrilla attacks near Wonsan, October 31, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Israeli troops relax along the Green Line near an infirmary
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Eighth Army Headquarters: Korea: Performing a feat virtually unparalleled in military history, twelve helicopters airlifted a United States Marine battalion of about 1,000 troops (0ctober 11) to Korea’s east-central front where American tank columns drove deep into Red territory on both sides of “Heartbreak Ridge.” Marines are pictured here alighting from one of the helicopters shortly after landing, October 16, 1951
1951
Image Not Available for Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
Israeli troops advance into Beirut: Israeli forces moved past the Green Line into the Museum crossing and continued heavy bombardment of West Beirut, yet they opened up a single crossing between the two sectors of the capital to allow thousands of residents to flee out of the West. This line separates the Muslim West and Christian East of Beirut. Lebanon’s internal security forces said at least 250 persons had been killed and nearly 700 wounded in this recent attack. Israeli and Palestinian forces consolidated their positions around the front line near the airport and the Green Line, and at the Museum and the Galerie Samaan crossings. Palestinian refugees arriving in a camp in Sidon, July 1982
1982
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tours "Battle Front": General Ralph E. Haines Jr. the Army's Vice chief of staff and commander of troops in Washington, views military installations yesterday from a bus tour with the capital city's Mayor Walter Washington to quell violence following the death of Dr. Martin Luthe rKing Jr. Troops are still in the city although there hasn't been serious trouble since Saturday night, April 12, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
North Vietnamese Troops: North Vietnamese troops in truck pass the front of the Pacific Hotel in Da Nang sometime after its seizure by the North Vietnamese. The building was once the headquarters of the U.S. A.I.D. organization, May 6, 1975
1975
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: While Lt. General Walton H. Walker, CG 8th Army looks on, General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, inspects some captured North Korean small arms near the Korean battle front. Collins visited the Korean front to analyze the war’s progress, August 24, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Elephant Walk: An elephant carries a visitor past the Angkor Wat ruins on December 1st, 1967. The government, with the help of France, spends $1 million annually to aid 1,000 Cambodians working to uncover and preserve the structures while, at the same time, open the vast jungle-covered area of ruins for tourists
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Entertaining the Troops, 1941-45, from "The Great Patriotic War Portfolio I"
Dmitri Baltermants
2003
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
British troops arrest young demonstrator after beating him up, riots in Roman Catholic Bogside area, Londonderry, North Ireland
Leonard Freed
1971