Here is a photo taken by a Marine in 1969. "Marine artillery units fired 105mm projectiles at random places and at random times throughout the night. Targets were plotted as stream and river junctions and trail junctions. On a patrol this Marine came across a camp fire with 3 or 4 dead North Vietnamese soldiers, their bodies deteriorated already who had been killed my one of these random H&I fires. (Harassment & Interdiction) This program was to keep invading units from the North off-balance and that there was never any secure area within range of the Marine artillery guns." Vietnam Veteran. Credit to a 7th Marine Regiment Marine, 1969 via Jack Wells. In the photo, you can see the helmet, part of the uniform and his belt and buckle.
Victorious NVA soldiers outside the Independence Palace in Saigon in 1975. The Independence Palace had been the official residence of the President of South Vietnam. After the war the Independence Palace was called the Reunification Palace, and Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City.
Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers speak with a seated North Vietnamese prisoner at Coral. He was one of fourteen prisoners taken by the Australians at Coral and Balmoral.
A recent abandoned encampment of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) prior to the Battle of Soui Tre, 1966-1967, 2/22, 4th and 25th Div. Photo by Jim Neeley.
In a testament to the ferocity of the fight around 102 Battery’s position, at least 7 North Vietnamese soldiers lie dead in front of the No. 6 gun on the morning of 13 May 1968. Shortly afterwards the bodies were collected and buried in a mass grave.
The bodies of North Vietnamese Army troops who attempted to hold the rubber plantation village of Binh Ba, are laid out in an open area so they can be checked for documents before burial. In the foreground are some of the Australian troops who fought in the battle, June 1969.
Captured guerrillas, blindfolded and hands tied behind their backs, are guarded by American GIs during the battle of An Thi, in South Vietnam. Photo by Henri Huet KIA Feb. 10 1971 over Laos.
Illusions of grandiosity: Beneath a propaganda image of himself, Ho Chi Minh addresses members of the Viet Minh in 1953. Although Ho Chi Minh was President of North Vietnam at the time, he was still involved in a struggle against the French, who attempted to re-establish colonial rule after the Second World War.
Bob Scheurer wearing North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soft cap with AK-47. Photo by SP4 Robert Scheurer, 11B (1968 - 1969) 1st Platoon "The Pioneers" 1st Battalion, 11th Inf. Regiment, 1st Brigade, 5th Inf. Div. (mech). Quang Tri Province, RVN.
General Vo Nguyen Giap in 1968. Giap was the senior general of the Vietnam People’s Army from 1946 to 1972. He is probably best known for his role in the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
SURVIVING AT BEN HET, VIETNAM: A US Special Forces soldier grimaces fiercely as he pulls a dead North Vietnamese soldier from a hole outside the Special Forces compound.
Extraction of female NVA (North Vietnamese Army) POW. Photo by Mariano Guzman who served as one of D-Troop's "Blues" while serving with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. courtesy of Mike Gustin.
