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Title: U.S. Army Soldiers With Vietnamese Children
Description: U.S. Army soldiers Bob Lund, Billy Pepper, and Smitty with Vietnamese children. October 1965. Photo by Bob Lund, 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery Regiment. Photo by Bob Lund, 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery Regiment, RVN 1965.
Subjects: Vietnam War, soldiers, Vietnamese, children, tanks, Army, U.S. Military
Local Identifier: 16-2740

Title: Viet Cong Prison Camp Survivor
Description: “The effects of just one month spent in a Viet Cong prison camp show on 23-year-old Le Van Than, who had defected from the Communist forces and joined the Government side, was recaptured by the Viet Cong and deliberately starved”, 1966. Photo by Ken Howser
Subjects: prison camps, prisoners of war (POW), communists, starvation, torturing, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Vietnam, Viet Cong, hospitals
Local Identifier: 16-3704

Title: Refugees Crossing the Perfume River at Truong Thien Bridge Outside of Hue, Vietnam
Description: Refugees crossing the Perfume River at Truong Thien Bridge outside of Hue. Photo by Douglas Pike.
Subjects: Vietnamese, Vietnam War, Vietnam, rivers, bridges, Refugees
Local Identifier: 16-2881

Title: Medics Working With the Villagers
Description: My M-16, my jeep and the Medics working with the villagers and giving Medical aid on the MEDCAP Program: Medical doctors and specialists with equipment and supplies set up a temporary field clinic to provide limited medical treatment to the local population. MEDCAPs are generally narrow in scope and usually provide targeted assistance, such as inoculations. 3/4 Cavalry Vietnam, Cu Chi, 1966. Photo by Roger McGill.
Subjects: Vietnam, Vietnam War, rifles, automatic rifles, jeeps, military personnel, soldiers, guns, medics, medicine, civic improvement, Vietnamese, locals, children
Local Identifier: 16-2560

Title: Soldier Guards Route 7 as Southern Vietnamese Return Home
Description: In this December 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a U.S. 1st Division soldier guards Route 7 as Vietnamese women and school children return home to the village of Xuan Dien from Ben Cat, Vietnam
Subjects: soldiers, protection, guards, locals, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, South Vietnamese, children
Local Identifier: 16-2636

Title: Local Villagers Surround Lieutenant John Lucaci and a Vietnamese Monk
Description: Local villagers surround Lieutenant John Lucaci, 1st Australian Reinforcement Unit and a Vietnamese monk. 1968. AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: The conflict in Vietnam ended up engulfing neighbouring Cambodia and Laos. United States and South Vietnamese forces sought to block the flow of soldiers and equipment through these countries into South Vietnam, invading Cambodia and Laos in 1970. In 1975 communist forces prevailed in all three countries causing millions to try and flee the new regimes. Cambodia sunk into the nightmare of Khmer Rouge rule. Declaring ‘Year Zero’ and proclaiming an austere agrarian socialist revolution, the Khmer Rouge drove the population into the countryside, murdering anyone considered an intellectual, wiping out most of the Buddhist priesthood and ultimately provoking Vietnam into invading in 1979. Enormous refugee camps were set up along the Thai border as hundreds of thousands of Cambodians fled the country with tales of brutality and horror. The camps were overcrowded and sometimes violent and people lived in them for years waiting for resettlement. Two million people sought to escape South Vietnam after the communist victory. Often taking to small, overcrowded boats they sailed into the South China Sea. Some made it as far as northern Australia, others spent years in refugee camps before finally being admitted to third countries. Many never made it that far, in unseaworthy vessels they succumbed to storms or drowned in calm seas when leaky boats sank beneath them. Pirates regularly attacked the slow, defenceless ships, raping the women, taking whatever valuables were on board and often murdering the refugees. The exodus from Indochina had an impact on the countries in which the refugees eventually settled. Over ten years from 1976, 94,000 refugees from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam settled in Australia. About 2,000 arrived by boat. Accepting tens of thousands of Asian refugees was a large leap for a country that not long before had upheld the White Australia Policy. Not since the migration of large numbers of Chinese during the nineteenth century goldrushes had there been a large influx of Asians into Australia. As a percentage of the population, Indochinese refugees were not a large group, but they were new and they were visible. Small areas of the country, such as Sydney’s Cabramatta, were dramatically changed by their presence. About 155,000 Vietnamese-born Australians live in Australia today. After the war Vietnam was a country in ruins; physical infrastructure on both sides of the North/South divide had been destroyed. From 1957, the year after elections meant to unify the country failed to take place, until 1972, when the South was left to continue the war without the support of foreign ground troops, some 3.5 million people died in Vietnam, 60,000 were American, 521 were Australian. In Australia support for the war waned as it went on. Many of those who opposed involvement in Vietnam joined the political left, contributing to the election of a Labor Government in 1972. The Vietnam era was a time of social upheaval in Australia, but other western countries, such as France, that had no involvement in this war in Vietnam also experienced rebellion and internal conflict. In Australia’s case, the war galvanised the protest movement, giving disparate groups an organising principle. Those who sought social change across a range of issues unrelated to the war found common cause in opposing Vietnam and national service. In the United States failure in Vietnam led to isolationism and a reluctance to become involved in overseas disputes. This was to some degree echoed in Australia. Even contributions to distant peacekeeping operations, in the Sinai for example, led to suggestions that Australia was becoming involved in another Vietnam. Vietnam has become a byword for military quagmire, used in regard to Iraq today, it is a shadow that hangs over military endeavour overseas. No one wants another Vietnam.
Subjects: war photography, Vietnamese, Australian, soldiers, monks
Local Identifier: 16-4474

Title: Montagnards' Village
Description: Montagnards, indigenous peoples, of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Photo by Lt. Bert Pence, FO Company B, 1/7 Cavalry, 1966.
Subjects: villages, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, civilians, children
Local Identifier: 16-2684

Title: US Marine Chaplain Rescuing Vietnamese Woman
Description: US Marine Chaplain rescuing Vietnamese woman, Battle of Hue, February 1968. Photo by Don McCullin.
Subjects: soldiers, Vietnamese, marines, war photography
Local Identifier: 16-4547

Title: Smoke Billows Over Section of Cholon From Fighting Between the ARVN and Viet Cong
Description: A pall of smoke hangs over the residential section of Cholon as hundreds of homes are consumed by fires resulting from the fighting between South Vietnamese Government troops and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars.Photo by Douglas Pike.
Subjects: Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Vietnam War, Vietnam, Vietnamese, civil wars, Tet Offensive, homesites, fires, smoke, residential districts, residential structures
Local Identifier: 16-2911

Title: These Kids Rescued Soldiers, Long Story..
Description: "If it wasn't for these two kids.. I might not be here today. Hope they made it out, never found out, but I always wondered. Saved both the Major and myself one day, and some of the Medics that were down. Long story just one of many." 3/4 Cavalry Vietnam, Cu Chi, 1966. Photo and comment by Roger McGill.
Subjects: local color, warning signs, Vietnam, Vietnamese, Vietnam War, children, locals
Local Identifier: 16-2570

Title: Vietnamese Marines Fight Communist Infiltrators in Gia Dinh
Description: Vietnamese Marines fight communist infiltrators in Gia Dinh. ARVN marines advance toward dug in Viet Cong troops in Gia Dinh three miles northeast of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, June 5, 1968. The combat-hardened Marines carry gas masks. The tank in the background suffered some damage the previous day from communist gunfire. The man on the left carries a 57mm recoilless rifle into battle. Photo by Douglas Pike.
Subjects: gas masks, Vietnamese, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Viet Cong, troops, communists, marines, combat, combatants, recoilless, rifles, tanks
Local Identifier: 16-2901

Title: Soldiers Posing With Vietnamese Women
Description: Unknown soldier and Hughett with Vietnamese women in Sin City, 2nd Platoon. Photo by Gordon Yeomans, 1966. Company B, 1/7 Cavalry.
Subjects: soldiers, civilians, recreation, women, Vietnamese
Local Identifier: 16-4034

Title: Group of Montagnard (or Degar) Females
Description: The Degar, also known as the Montagnard, are the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The term Montagnard means "people of the mountain" in French and is a carryover from the French colonial period in Vietnam. Photo by Chester Ogle, 1967. Company B, 1/7 Cavalry.
Subjects: war photography, Indigenous peoples, Vietnamese
Local Identifier: 16-2764

Title: Ho Chi Minh Addresses Members Of The Viet Minh
Description: 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.
Subjects: Vietnam War, Vietnamese, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), People’s Army of Vietnam, propaganda
Local Identifier: 16-4635

Title: Soldier, and Team Leader, With a Kit Carson Scout
Description: Jim Bates & Thny. "Jim was my Team Leader and Thny was a Kit Carson Scout. We were lucky to get a couple of good ones. Their families were killed by the VC/NVA, so they wanted them more than we did". The Kit Carson Scouts (Vietnamese: Hồi Chánh Viên, a term loosely translated as "members who have returned to the righteous side") belonged to a special program initially created by the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War involving the use of former Viet Cong combatants as intelligence scouts for American infantry units. Photo and comments by David Weeks II.
Subjects: soldiers, Viet Cong, friends, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Kit Carson Scouts, infantrymen, scouts, combatants
Local Identifier: 16-3502

Title: Vietnamese Soldiers Trudge Past a Grieving Mother Praying for Daughter and Daughter-in-Law in Their Coffins
Description: Vietnamese soldiers trudge past a grieving mother praying for daughter and daughter-in-law in their coffins. Both were killed during heavy fighting between ARVN troops and Viet Cong as the Viet Cong attacked An Nhon hamlet in Go Vap District, Gia Dinh Province. At the same time others were striking at the capital city and other areas of the Republic as the populace celebrated the TET (new year - The Year of the Monkey) season on the early morning hours of January 31, 1968. Photo by Dougls Pike.
Subjects: deep mourning, mourners, mourning, Tet Offensive, tragedy, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), North Vietnamese Army (NVA), soldiers, women, Vietnamese
Local Identifier: 16-2941

Title: Major Gordon Brown, AATTV, and Vietnamese Women Stand Before Rotting Clothing
Description: Major Gordon Brown, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), of Victoria, and Vietnamese women stand before rotting clothing found in a mass grave near Nam Hoa. The remains of more than 200 victims of the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive were found in the grave. October 1969. Vietnam Veteran Comments: "I was instructed to visit Nam Hoa District village to ascertain whether it was a fact that the remains of some of the victims of the Tet massacre in 1968 had been found. I cannot, in words, describe the scene that confronted me when I arrived at that place. Approximately a thousand bodies had been retrieved and placed in Nam Hoa Village… In front of the shrine was a large open space where skeletons were laid on plastic for identification. It was a devastating sight." -Warrant Officer Don Killion
Subjects: soldiers, graves, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), Vietnamese, clothing
Local Identifier: 16-4592

Title: Injured Vietnamese Receive Aid After Bomb Explosion Outside U.S. Embassy in Saigon
Description: Injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, March 30, 1965. Smoke rises from wreckage in the background. At least two Americans and several Vietnamese were killed in the bombing.
Subjects: Vietnamese, bombs, explosions, embassies, destruction, American
Local Identifier: 16-4136

Title: Major Gordon Brown AATTV of Victoria and Vietnamese Women Stand Before Rotting Clothing Found in Mass Grave
Description: Major Gordon Brown, AATTV (Australian Army Training Team Vietnam) of Victoria, and Vietnamese women stand before rotting clothing found in a mass grave near Nam Hoa. The remains of more than 200 victims of the Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive were found in the grave. October 1969. Vietnam Veteran comments: "I was instructed to visit Nam Hoa District village to ascertain whether it was a fact that the remains of some of the victims of the Tet massacre in 1968 had been found. I cannot, in words, describe the scene that confronted me when I arrived at that place. Approximately a thousand bodies had been retrieved and placed in Nam Hoa Village… In front of the shrine was a large open space where skeletons were laid on plastic for identification. It was a devastating sight."
Subjects: deaths, mass grave, Vietnamese, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), clothing
Local Identifier: 16-4636

Title: Curved River Near Quang Tri
Description: Curved River in I Corps near Quang Tri, 1971. Photo by David Burnett.
Subjects: Vietnamese, rivers, war photography
Local Identifier: 16-4706

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