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Title: Bring Wounded In From A Huey
Personal Creator: Milt Brown
Description: Bringing in wounded from a Huey helicopter. 3rd Brigade (TF), 25th ID - Duc Pho 1967. Photo by Milt Brown.
Subjects: soldiers, helicopters, Huey helicopters, Wounded in action (WIA), military bases
Local Identifier: 16-3051

Title: Patients At The 2nd Military Hospital
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: Major General M F Brogan, General Officer Commanding Eastern Command, talks with Lance Corporal Noel Godbold (left) who served for 11 months in 7RAR and Private Ian Crisp of NSW who was wounded in a mine explosion after serving for 9 months with 2RAR. Both men, patients at the 2nd Military Hospital, Ingleburn are watching the 7RAR march past in Sydney on 10 March 1971
Subjects: officers, land mines, explosions, Wounded in action (WIA), soldiers, wounded, parades, generals
Local Identifier: 16-4740

Title: Two Members of V-Company Use Smoke to Signal Location of Wounded During Operation Coburg
Personal Creator: Keith Williams
Description: Preparing for a casualty evacuation, two members of V-Company, a New Zealand component of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Battalion, use smoke to signal the location of men wounded during Operation Coburg to a dustoff helicopter. Coburg took place in the border area of Bien Hoa and Long Khanh provinces, to the north-west of Phuoc Tuy. In the foreground is Corporal W. Vautier, of the ANZAC Battalion. February 1968. Vietnam Veteran comment: "I used to go down to the field hospital, this was at Vung Tau, and some of the fellows down there. They really would have been better off dead. It was an ironic tragedy, if that's not a tautology, that they could rescue people that had been badly wounded and have them on the operating theatre within twenty minutes of being hit. Now most of those blokes would have died, in any other conflict. They wouldn't have survived… There were some terribly wounded blokes." Photo by Keith Williams.
Subjects: helicopters, smoke, Wounded in action (WIA), ANZAC Battalion
Local Identifier: 16-4463

Title: Reoccuping a Hilltop Outpost After Hand-To-Hand Combat
Personal Creator: Dana Stone
Description: South Vietnamese Special Forces troopers led by U.S Green Beret Officers reoccupy a hilltop outpost after hand-to-hand combat. Ha Than, 1968. Photo by Dana Stone
Subjects: combatants, combat, troops, Green Beret Officers, Wounded in action (WIA)
Local Identifier: 16-4599

Title: Kingsman Huey Destroyed by Detonated Mine
Personal Creator: Tom Everhart
Description: Kingsman Huey destroyed by detonated mine. "It exploded under the pilots seat, blowing him and seat through back of aircraft. I medevaced him to hospital in Phu Bai. He survived his wounds thanks to armored seat. One GI on firebase was killed when aircraft flipped on him. Mike Grisey says: I remember that mission... If it wasn't for the Door Gunner's eagle eye spotting the wires leading to mine on top of that abandoned fire base, we would have landed on top of it, and that could have been '798 blown apart... By the time we notified the ships behind us, it was too late." Photo by and comments by Tom Everhart
Subjects: Killed In Action (KIA), cockpits, land mines, mines, explosions, explosives, Vietnam War, helicopters, helicopter crews, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, pilots, Wounded in action (WIA), medevacs, hospitals, Fire Support Bases (FSB), gunners
Local Identifier: 16-3692

Title: Wounded Being Taken To A Nearby Medical Center
Personal Creator: Bruno Barbey
Description: South Vietnam, An Lo, 1972. A Soviet made T.54 tank decorated with the skull of a North Vietnamese soldier, after the attack on the city of An Loc. American and South Vietnamese wounded are taken to a nearby medical center. Photograph by Bruno Barbey.
Subjects: soldiers, Wounded in action (WIA), South Vietnamese Army (SVA), Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), tanks, Huey helicopters
Local Identifier: 16-2966

Title: Portrait of an Older Vietnamese Man During the Battle of Hue, February 1968
Personal Creator: Don McCullin
Description: Portrait of an old Vietnamese man during the Battle of Hue, February 1968. Photo by Don McCullin Here is an interview with Don McCullin discussing his observations during the Tet Offensive: DON MCCULLIN, THE BATTLE OF HUE - FEBRUARY 1968: WOUNDED LIEUTENANT. The Colonel that I was with, his name was Myron Harrington, said to me, "This will be a 24-hour operation". Two weeks later and 70 men killed and a thousand casualties, the Marines took a bit of a beating. I came away from Hue, a much older, and a much wiser person than I went in because I didn't take my clothes off for 2 weeks. I didn't shave, I didn't wash, and I was living like an animal. With Delta company I was on the wall. And what happened was that the snipers were just cutting these people to pieces, and we couldn't see these snipers - like all snipers they are secret killers. This particular day, I was with a probing patrol of Marines and they got really badly hit and the actual lieutenant who was in charge of this patrol was hit - clipped in the throat - and he was also badly wounded in the thigh, he was immobile and couldn't move. So I crawled over to him and I said, "Look. I can't do much for you, but let me bandage your leg and let's get out of here, I'll help you." And he said, "No, I'm going to bring down fire on this position" and I said, "You must be crazy." The thing was, he was in very big shock and he was losing it -- or he'd lost it, really, and so I calmed him down. The things, events changed and the pressure came off of us, and thank god he didn't send that command to bring the artillery down on our own positions. But that's what men are like in war, they sometimes break up and they lose it. It's all about shock and it's all about being in war really. We have been through many of those days. The thing of course, is that we don't lose it. DON MCCULLIN - ON PHOTOGRAPHING THE VIETNAM WAR: We became war junkies. It was always at the expense of other people's lives. That wasn't right for us to get off on that, but we did it. And in many ways we went to Vietnam and we also raped the country, we changed our money on the black markets, we became famous photographers and doors opened for us more easily because we made a name in photography. But we always have to remember how we made that name. We made it at the expense of other people's suffering. We went to those places, we got a certain amount of excitement out of it, and even that was wrong because the worse it got, the more excited we got. Admittedly we were afraid - sometimes we occasionally paid the price in blood, from our own bodies. Well, if I have to think back about it -- first of all, it's done me a great deal of harm. It helped to ruin part of my life. My first marriage broke up, and also I started to get slightly off the rails. It affected my life and I was a very angry young man, I needed to test myself. But in the end it was an indulgence, because I didn't need to do that. What I've discovered in myself now, is that -- first of all I hate those photographs I took all those years, that is to say the photographs I have done in the past 10 or 15 years give me much more pleasure because they are about life, they are about the countryside, they are about the land, and the rivers, and the beauty of our planet and even that is under threat. What is left of my photography and my energy -- my body is refusing to climb hills or carry all of my equipment. But I still have the passion of photography. And I will exercise that passion until I am on my knees.
Subjects: military history, histories, stories, portraits, Tet Offensive, snipers, Wounded in action (WIA), stress, internal stress, combat, combat zones, battles, pressure, war photography, civilians, War
Local Identifier: 16-4604

Title: Marine Crawls To The Rescue Of A Wounded Buddy
Personal Creator: Catherine Leroy
Description: Under enemy fire, a Marine crawls to the rescue of a wounded buddy. 1967. Photo by Catherine Leroy.
Subjects: Wounded in action (WIA), marines, war photography
Local Identifier: 16-4603

Title: Soldier Holding a Captured Communist Flag
Personal Creator: Ernie Patrick
Description: Photo by Ernie Patrick who was with the "Blues". from March, to July, 1970. Ernie says he wasn't in country very long. Ship was shot down and he was sent to hospital in Da Nang, Cam Rahn Bay, Japan then to Fort Gordon, Georgia. Finally sent to Fort Hood where he stayed until discharged. He was with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Courtesy of Mike Gustin.
Subjects: flags, soldiers, Saber Blues, Wounded in action (WIA), 1st Cavalry Division, wounded
Local Identifier: 16-3925

Title: Wounded Soldier is Assisted by His Comrades
Personal Creator: Harold Keim
Description: Soldier with leg and/or foot wound is helped away from the field by fellow soliders. Photo by Harold Keim
Subjects: battles, Wounded in action (WIA), combat, combatants, land mines, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Army, U.S. Military, extractions, medics, medevacs
Local Identifier: 16-3803

Title: A Helicopter Lifts A Wounded American Soldier
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: A helicopter lifts a wounded American soldier on a stretcher during Operation Silver City in Vietnam, March 13, 1966.
Subjects: Wounded in action (WIA), war photography, helicopters, wounded
Local Identifier: 16-4764

Title: US Marines Evacuating Wounded Buddy
Personal Creator: Don McCullin
Description: US Marines evacuating wounded buddy during the Battle of Hue, February 1968. Photo by Don McCullin.
Subjects: marines, Wounded in action (WIA), battles
Local Identifier: 16-4704

Title: Soldiers Helping Soldiers During a Fire Fight in Hue, Southern Vietnam
Personal Creator: Art Greenspon
Description: As fellow troopers aided wounded buddies, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne, guides a medical evacuation helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties during a five-day patrol of an area southwest of Hue, South Vietnam, April 1968. This photograph is featured on the cover of the Associated Press' book 'Vietnam: The Real War.'
Subjects: Vietnam, Vietnam War, soldiers, Killed In Action (KIA), Wounded in action (WIA), battles, combat, combatants, shots, shot, guns, attacks, friends, troops
Local Identifier: 16-3538

Title: Sky Soldiers Wounded in Action, 1966
Personal Creator: Tim Page
Description: The 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team ("Sky Soldiers") WIA, 1966. Photo by Tim Page. http://www.173rdairborne.com/menuvietnam.htm
Subjects: Wounded in action (WIA), soldiers, Airborne Brigade, wounded
Local Identifier: 16-4557

Title: Pevy, of 4th Battalion, Wanted One Last Ride With His Buddy
Personal Creator: Jerry W. Colwell
Description: "This is actually taken at the MP Squad AO, LZ North English. Sergeant Bird is unhooking the antenna. Bill Barr (I believe) is driving, Terry Smith is working the radio, probably asking the main desk on LZ English, 'how ya read me?'. Ed Christman, sergeant on the main desk would reply, 'gotcha lima charlie!' Pevy, of 4th Battalion wanted one last ride with his buddy, Sergeant Bird. Bird was severely WIA in an early January 1970 mortar attack on LZ North English. That is the same attack in which Major Lewis, the XO was KIA. LZ English, Pevy DEROS'ing." Photo and comments by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: Killed In Action (KIA), Wounded in action (WIA), jeeps, radio, Landing Zone (LZ), army bases, stories, storytellers, storytelling, soldiers, Vietnam War, Vietnam, Military Police (MP), battalions
Local Identifier: 16-3283

Title: Tending To A Wounded Soldier
Personal Creator: William Grueschow
Description: Tending to a wounded soldier in a rice paddy. Photo by William Grueschow.
Subjects: soldiers, medics, Wounded in action (WIA)
Local Identifier: 16-2615

Title: Huey Pilot Hovers While Loading Wounded Soldiers
Personal Creator: Howard Swede Ware
Description: "This was up north of Tay Ninh. [The helicopter pilot] couldn't land so [he] hovered while loading wounded, I was peeking around a tree, bad neighborhood! Dust Off pilots were not known to be stable individuals! They were shot down or shot up more than any other pilots in the 'Nam !! God love em!!'" Photo and comment by Howard Swede Ware.
Subjects: Wounded in action (WIA), combat, helicopters, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, pilots, Vietnam War, Vietnam
Local Identifier: 16-3705

Title: Squad, From 1st Cavalry Regiment, Ready to Go on a Mission
Personal Creator: Ernie Patrick
Description: Squad ready to go on a mission. Photo by Ernie Patrick who was with the "Blues". from March, to July, 1970. Ernie says he wasn't in country very long. Ship was shot down and he was sent to hospital in Da Nang, Cam Rahn Bay, Japan then to Fort Gordon, Ga. Finally sent to Fort Hood where he stayed until discharge. Earnie was with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Courtesy of Mike Gustin
Subjects: missions, military aircraft, military photography, military personnel, military history, helicopters, 1st Cavalry Division, D-troop, Wounded in action (WIA), hospitals, military hospitals, Saber Blues, military homecoming, group portraits, Iroquois Helicopters
Local Identifier: 16-3975

Title: RAAF Nursing Sister, Squadron Officer Harriett Hardy Fenwick
Personal Creator: Unknown
Description: RAAF Nursing Sister, Squadron Officer Harriett Hardy Fenwick from NSW adjusts the litter strap of an Australian Army soldier WIA as he is flown home on a RAAF Hercules for medical treatment, 1965. Between 1965 and 1971, more than a hundred members of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service flew more than 3000 sick and injured Australian and New Zealand servicemen on aeromedical (‘medevac’) flights from Vietnam to Australia. The patients were transported in litters, stacked four deep and four high and were usually accompanied only by the nurses and medical orderlies.
Subjects: Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), war photography, Wounded in action (WIA), soldiers, Nurses
Local Identifier: 16-4498

Title: Bringing In Wounded
Personal Creator: Milt Brown
Description: Bringing in wounded. 3rd Brigade (TF), 25th ID - Duc Pho 1967. Photo by Milt Brown.
Subjects: helicopters, Huey helicopters, Wounded in action (WIA), military aircraft, medics
Local Identifier: 16-3105

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