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DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 x 8 in. (16.5 x 20.3 cm)
Accession Number 2024.294
Classificationsphotograph
Blast Scatters Dead and Wounded: injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, March 30, 1965. Smoke rises from wreckage in background. At least two Americans and several Vietnamese were killed in the bombing. Vietnamese father (left) searched for his child
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
Image Not Available for Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
Run and Fire Attack: a Vietnamese infantryman jumps from the protection of a rice paddy dike for another short charge during a run and fire assault on Viet Cong Guerrillas entrenched in Riceland’s in an area 15 miles west of Saigon. When field and surrounding brush line was finally taken, Vietnamese had suffered a loss of 12 men dead or wounded, Straw stack fire at center was set by Guerrillas as a distraction, April 4, 1965
1965
Image Not Available for North Vietnamese Captives: A U.S. Marine escorts North Vietnamese regular army captives to evacuation helicopter near Quang Ngai, 335 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, March 7th, 1966. During weekend of March 5th through 6th, Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers annihilated a 2,000-man communist regiment, killing almost half of them
North Vietnamese Captives: A U.S. Marine escorts North Vietnamese regular army captives to evacuation helicopter near Quang Ngai, 335 miles northwest of Saigon in Vietnam, March 7th, 1966. During weekend of March 5th through 6th, Marines and South Vietnamese paratroopers annihilated a 2,000-man communist regiment, killing almost half of them
1966
Image Not Available for Youthful Offender: Looking like a juvenile delinquent behind prison bars, this young South Vietnamese boy is actually looking into a Buddhist pagoda from behind a spiked fence in Saigon. He was watching a ceremony which was taking place in the pagoda, September 1973
Youthful Offender: Looking like a juvenile delinquent behind prison bars, this young South Vietnamese boy is actually looking into a Buddhist pagoda from behind a spiked fence in Saigon. He was watching a ceremony which was taking place in the pagoda, September 1973
1973
Image Not Available for House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
House Hunting In Vietnam: A woman holds high a sheet of tin roofing from what was her house in the Tay Ninh area, 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Her dwelling was one of more than a hundred which burned down during and after a Viet Cong rocket attack on the provincial capital. Many Tay Ninh residents, fearing a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese onslaught, have fled the town, January 1975
1975
Image Not Available for Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
Walking With The Wounded: There is no quarter given on either side at the Vietnam outpost of Khe Sanh. The wounded, moved by litter from their defensive positions to the hospital bunker or into evacuating helicopters, are the targets for North Vietnamese gunners, making any open exposure a time of danger. Here, a downed soldier, with shell fragments in his back and legs, is carried by his comrades, one wounded about the head, across an open area during a lull in the fighting, March 8, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: First American battle casualties receive first aid after being wounded in the fighting at the Korean battle front. These men were evacuated by train and plane to hospitals in rear, July 9, 1950
1950
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
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
Plain white and yellow dot paddle head rises
Kate Shepherd
1999
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
Image Not Available for Sanpans laden with prisoners released by the South Vietnamese head for North Vietnamese shore, July 12th, 1970. The former prisoners toss items given to them by the South Vietnamese overboard
Sanpans laden with prisoners released by the South Vietnamese head for North Vietnamese shore, July 12th, 1970. The former prisoners toss items given to them by the South Vietnamese overboard
1970