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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 7103011214
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Accession Number 2025.320
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
Image Not Available for Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Protest War in Laos: demonstrators gather on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House today with a Viet Cong flag to protest the South Vietnamese incursion into Laos, Washington DC, February 10, 1971
1971
Image Not Available for Israeli-Occupied Lebanon: a father is united with his son in a warm embrace where both are fighting against Palestinian guerrillas here in Israel’s drive to Beirut, June 12, 1982
Israeli-Occupied Lebanon: a father is united with his son in a warm embrace where both are fighting against Palestinian guerrillas here in Israel’s drive to Beirut, June 12, 1982
1982
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
Psalter page: Ante oculos meos. Domine exaudi orationem meam.
Anonymous
14th century
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 Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
1973
Image Not Available for Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
1973
Image Not Available for Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
Racial prejudice is acquired, not inherited, sociologists point out. These children at a nonsegregated housing project in Washington, D.C., are growing up in an atmosphere of racial harmony, reflecting the attitudes in their parents' homes. There is no reason to believe that integration will contribute to intermarriages, the social scientists say, because experience has shown that 90% of all marriages are between people who have similar racial, social and religious backgrounds. This is one example of racial integration of a number in the nation's capital. President Eisenhower hopes Washington will became a model for the rest of the nation. Economic and social barriers against Negroes have been dropping int he wake of court rulings and organized campaigns, September 12, 1955
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1955
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
GI’s Take Koje Today: Businesslike GI’s, well-armed for their day’s work, march along a road on Koje Island with a large North Korean flag which they had just taken from prisoner-of-war compound 85. The enemy banner is one of the many symbols of defiance ordered removed the troublesome prisoner enclosures on the South Korean island, site of the largest Allied prisoner concentration, June 9, 1952
1952
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Directs Tank Landing: Lieutenant Adlai Stevenson Jr. Liaison Officer of the First Marine Regiment (right), directs tan landing via telephone on the beachhead where the leathernecks’ simulated assault operations were held. Reinforced regiments of leathernecks including the First, splashed ashore at an East Coast fishing village of South Korea May 3, in the first phase of the Marine’s largest amphibious training exercise since the end of the Korean War. Marine at left unidentified, May 6, 1954
1954