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DimensionsOverall: 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (17.1 x 21 cm)
Accession Number 2024.307
Classificationsphotograph
Handy Helpers: Members of the 1st Air Cavalry Division pass a child from hand to hand across a rain swollen stream near Xuan Que as they helped South Vietnamese refugees move to a resettlement camp from their village last week. The villagers volunteered to leave the area which had become a battleground between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. The village was destroyed after the villagers left to deny sanctuary to the enemy, January 7, 1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
He Listens to Them: Major General Nguyen Duc Thang squats and listens to old Vietnamese woman explain drainage ditch she and other villagers are digging along road in countryside. Thang averages 20 days a month in the field as head of program seeking pacification of South Vietnamese countryside, April 1967
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Three hatted villagers, Portugal
Ken Heyman
1964
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A line of South Vietnamese marines moves across a shallow branch of the Mekong River during an operation near Neak Luong, Cambodia on August 20th, 1970, major base for such operations in Cambodia’s eastern region. Monsoon rains have swollen streams and rivers in the area and troops often are in and out of the water dozens of times daily
1970
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 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
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
1971
Image Not Available for Money Matters: Two small Vietnamese girls are all smiles as they examine some folding money given to them by their mother as they boarded a South Vietnamese navy refugee ship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the trip to South Vietnam on August 22nd, 1970. The children had been refugees in the Cambodian capital for the past few months
Money Matters: Two small Vietnamese girls are all smiles as they examine some folding money given to them by their mother as they boarded a South Vietnamese navy refugee ship in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for the trip to South Vietnam on August 22nd, 1970. The children had been refugees in the Cambodian capital for the past few months
1970
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 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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sariwon, Korea: Civilian police guard North Korea Communists captured in the city. The prisoners have their hands tied behind their backs and huddle together for warmth. Just what will become of the prisoners in the event of further withdrawals is not unknown, December 12, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Rough Riders Aboard A Captured Russ Truck: there’s nothing like a joyride on a captured Russian truck. Here, GIs of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division happily waved their own and captured enemy rifles as they rode atop a seized Russian truck in the Shau Valley in the northern part of South Vietnam. Other GIs on road gave them the “thumbs up” sign in celebration. The soldiers found this truck and three others in an enemy cache of assorted weapons while on Operation Delaware which seeks to invade the A Shau Valley, April 26, 1968
1968