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Title: E-Troop 17th Cavalry
Description: E-Troop 17th Cavalry, LZ Uplift.It was the base of operations for the 1st Bn 69th Armor. It was also home to an artillery battery and a battalion of the 1/503rd of the 173rd Airborne. There was a Duster battery from the 4th/60th Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) located here as well as artillery from the 7th/15th Artillery, and the 7th/13th Artillery., Jan/Feb of 1970. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: cavalry, Armored Cavalry Regiment, armored personnel carriers, tanks, artillery, patrol, military vehicles, military photography
Local Identifier: 16-3946

Title: Soldiers From 1st Cavalry Regiment Relaxing Together
Description: Brothers. Photo by Samuel Dunnock with the "Blues" (Saber Blues) while serving with D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1968. courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: 1st Cavalry Division, D-troop, Saber Blues, soldiers, friends, human behavior, military history, military personnel, military photography
Local Identifier: 16-4330

Title: Viet Cong KIA after Attacking the Perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Description: Viet Cong dead after an attack on the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price.
Subjects: air bases, Viet Cong, deaths, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), military bases, military photography, military history, Killed In Action (KIA), war photography, U.S. Military, soldiers, Tet Offensive, battles, combat, combatants
Local Identifier: 16-2942

Title: Boot Camp Photograph Of Mike Green
Description: Boot camp photograph of Mike Green, 1966. Photo by Mike Green.
Subjects: Vietnam War, military personnel, military photography, boot camps, military uniforms
Local Identifier: 16-2982

Title: Entrance to 1st Cavalry Base Camp at An Khe
Description: Entrance to 1st Cavalry base camp at An Khe, March '67 Photo by Dennis Blessing, 2nd Platoon 1967. Company B, 1/7 Cavalry
Subjects: cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, army bases, Army, base, military bases, military camps, military photography, military vehicles
Local Identifier: 16-3937

Title: Squad, From 1st Cavalry Regiment, Ready to Go on a Mission
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: companion portraits, 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: Military Police Squad from the 173rd Airborne Brigade
Description: October or so, 1969, LZ (Landing Zone) North English, Main Gate, MP Squad, 173rd Airborne Brigade, Vietnam — with Jerry Doyle, ARVN Sgt Long, KIA July 70, Paul Hurst, Sergeant Bell, House Boy, John Herron and Terry Smith. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: soldiers, Military Police (MP), Landing Zone (LZ), military bases, military vehicles, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military history, military personnel, military photography, brigades, Killed In Action (KIA), Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
Local Identifier: 16-2576

Title: Portrait of an Older Vietnamese Man During the Battle of Hue, February 1968
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 photography, 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: Soldiers Arriving For Deployment in Da Nang, Vietnam
Description: Soldiers landing in Vietnam, March 8, 1965 — in Da Nang, Vietnam. Photo by Jack Mulliner
Subjects: soldiers, military deployment, military aircraft, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military history, military photography, military personnel, military bases, Landing Zone (LZ)
Local Identifier: 16-2635

Title: 42nd US Artillery Which was Temporarily Based at Nui Dat in Support of the Australian Task Force
Description: What??? Gunner (Gnr) Mervyn Bignall 107th Field battery of NSW (in the foreground) during a visit to C Battery, 5th/42nd US Artillery which was temporarily based at Nui Dat in support of the Australian Task Force, January 1971.
Subjects: 1st Australian Task Force (1 ATF), gunners, field artillery, artillery, military photography, military camps
Local Identifier: 16-4738

Title: Members of the 716th MP Battalion Guard the Entrance to the U.S. Embassy
Description: Saigon Republic of Vietnam. Viet Cong Attack American Embassy. Members of the 716th MP [Military Police] Battalion guard the entrance to the embassy. 31 January 1968
Subjects: invaders, Viet Cong, attacks, embassies, battalions, Military Police (MP), military photography, Vietnam, Vietnam War, guards, entrances, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), North Vietnamese Army (NVA), American
Local Identifier: 16-2930

Title: Rocky Schmit and Mike Pistorino Return to Camp Reasoner After Going on Patrol
Description: 1967 Rocky Schmit and Mike Pistorino return to Camp Reasoner after patrol. Photo by Rick Rabenold and repaired by Dan Fox
Subjects: military camps, patrol, returns, military history, military photography, soldiers, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Local Identifier: 16-2890

Title: Plane at Khe Sanh beyond the leveled ammunition dump
Description: Resupply--An Air Force C-123 touches down at Khe Sanh beyond the leveled ammunition dump. January, 1968: Tet Offensive.
Subjects: Tet Offensive, supplies, suppliers, air forces, U.S. Military, U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), ammunition components, leveling, military aircraft, military photography, planes, aircraft, airstrips, transport aircraft
Local Identifier: 16-2888

Title: Portrait of a Soldier as an MP
Description: "Did a short gig as an MP before going to Officer Cadet School." Photo by Tom Everhart
Subjects: Military Police (MP), U.S. Military, soldiers, military uniforms, military photography, studio portraits, portraits
Local Identifier: 16-3682

Title: Soldiers Outside a Thatch Hut
Description: Photo by John Ferguson
Subjects: soldiers, Vietnam, Vietnam War, military photography, huts, villages
Local Identifier: 16-2555

Title: Catherine Leroy (1945 – 2006) A French-born Photojournalist And War Photographer
Description: Catherine Leroy (1945 – 8 July 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. Catherine was brought up in a convent in Paris. She was moved by images of war she had seen in Paris Match, and decided she wanted to travel to Vietnam to "give war a human face." At the age of 21 booked a one-way ticket to Laos in 1966, with just one Leica M2 and $100 in her pocket. On arrival in Saigon, Leroy met the photographer Horst Faas, bureau chief of the Associated Press. A year later she became the first accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump, joining the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Operation Junction City. Two weeks after the battle for Hill 881, she was wounded with a Marine unit near the demilitarized zone. In 1968, during the Tet Offensive, Leroy was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. She managed to talk her way out and emerged as the first newsperson to take photos of North Vietnamese Army Regulars behind their own lines. The story made the cover of Life Magazine. Her most famous photo, "Corpsman In Anguish," (1967 at the Wayback Machine, archived December 3, 2007) was one of three taken in quick succession portraying U.S. Navy Corpsman Vernon Wike. In the pictures the sailor is crouched in tall grass during the battle for Hill 881 near Khe Sanh. He is cradling his comrade who has been shot while smoke from the battle rises into the air behind them. In the first frame Wike has two hands on his friends chest, trying to staunch the wound. In the second, he is trying to find a heartbeat. In the third frame, "Corpsman In Anguish", he has just realized the man is dead. After Vietnam, she covered conflicts in several countries, including Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Lebanon. After her experiences in Beirut she swore off war coverage. Leroy originally sold her work to United Press International and The Associated Press, and later worked for Sipa Press and Gamma. In 1972, Leroy shot and directed Operation Last Patrol, a film about Ron Kovic and the anti-war Vietnam veterans. Leroy co-authored the book God Cried, about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War. She lived in the Hotel Chelsea in the late 1980s. Later in life, she founded and ran a vintage clothing store, Piece Unique, with a website. She died in Santa Monica, California, following a battle with lung cancer. Leroy won numerous awards for her work, including in 1967 the George Polk Awards, Picture of the Year, The Sigma Delta Chi and The Art Director's Club of New York. She was the first woman to receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award – "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise" – for her coverage of the civil war in Lebanon, in 1976. In 1997, she was the recipient of an Honor Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Subjects: photojournalists, photojournalism, paratroopers, journalists, war photography, military photography, military history
Local Identifier: 16-4437

Title: Hovering 992 Helicopter
Description: hovering 992 helicopter. Photo by John Harris, who was a door gunner with the "Scouts" during the years 1969-1971, Scout Platoon, D Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: helicopters, troops, military photography, military vehicles, gunners, platoons, 1st Cavalry Division
Local Identifier: 16-3910

Title: Vietnam Veteran, William Carr Jr., Remembers a Fellow Soldier
Description: Date: 10/24/2005 3:42:20 PM Eastern Daylight I regret to inform you of the recent death of former "Redcatcher," William Condon. "Billy," as we called him, was formerly a member of our unit, 3d Platoon, C Company, 2d Battalion, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (Old Guard), 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate), at Fort Benning and in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He was a member of Sergeant James Williston's squad. In case you did not know, he died this past summer of complications associated with a seizure, as I understand it, according to a woman who said she was his wife. Today at lunchtime, I called his home in Maine and a woman answered. I told her I was looking for William Condon; I had served with him in Vietnam. She said that her husband had died in either July or June of this year. (Sorry, I could not understand everything she said and I could not bring myself to question her too much about the details). Billy was a funny guy, as I remember him. Had a way of talking that amused me - anyway. A couple of things I will always remember about Billy. (1) He liked to sit down. I remember on one mission, we were searching .a village. Billy had a habit of sitting down a lot, or at least it seemed that way to me. So when I passed a Vietnamese "hooch" that apparently Billy had just finished searching and saw him sitting down on one of those mounds of hardened mud (you may recall the Vietnamese villagers slept on these in their houses,) I remarked (and I can recall it clear as day), "Billy, you are always sitting down," I said. "I'll bet if you ever get hit, you will get it sitting down." Just as I finished my sentence, I looked down and right beside Billy was a grenade. I don't know where it came from, it might even have been his, but I didn't wait to find out and neither did he. We assumed it had come from inside the mound, from a "spider hole," those mysterious holes in the ground that we use to throw grenades in to kill any Viet Cong that may have been hiding in them. Anyway, I yelled ".Look out Billy! grenade beside you!" and we both ran as fast away from that house and the grenade as we could get. We never knew if it exploded or not, but of course we were not going back to find out. (2). Another thing I remember about Billy was that he was always getting stuck in the knee high (sometimes waist-high) mud we always had to walk through in our combat missions in the rice paddies in the Delta of Vietnam. We would all be trudging through, pulling ourselves along and there would be Billy - dragging along slightly behind, with his buddy, Merrill Doyle. Usually, on average maybe once per mission, I recall, one of them would get stuck. Because of suction, or whatever, immobilizing their movements they could not walk. The unstuck member of the duo would have to help pull them out. Others of us in the squad would sometimes have to help, also. It's been almost 40 years since I saw him last and I don't recall more. I wish he could have attended one of our Redcatcher Association reunions. I called him about 7 or 8 years ago to get him to come, but he said he did not want to even talk about Vietnam at that point. Out of respect for his wishes, I never attempted to contact him again until today. Now I'm thinking maybe I should have called sooner. Sorry to have to bring this news to you this way, I know most of the guys who read this might have seen him more recently than I did, if you remember him at all. Many of us will never forget him. May he have eternal peace and may God forgive his sins. Regards and please pass this message along, Bill Carr Sergeant Major, Retired Formerly with 3d Platoon, 0/2/3/199 LIB Nov '67-Apr 1967. Photographs by SSG Larry Shirk and SP4 James Fisher courtesy of William Carr Jr.
Subjects: stories, portraits, oral histories, histories, Vietnam, Vietnam War, war memorials, military history, military personnel, military photography, people in military occupations, U.S. Military, soldiers
Local Identifier: 16-2566

Title: Aerial View of a Military Base Along the Coast
Description: Photo by Bill Foster who served with the "Blues" (Saber Blues) D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Nov. 1970-Aug. 1971. Courtesy of Mike Gustin
Subjects: Saber Blues, D-troop, 1st Cavalry Division, cavalry, military bases, military camps, military photography, military installations, aerial photographs, aerial views, aerial photography
Local Identifier: 16-3958

Title: Photograph of Sergeant Rex C. McBee
Description: Photo taken age 20 after two tours Vietnam, taken in D.C. while assigned at Marine Barracks 8th and I HQ. Other units India 3/3/3 - HQ Regiment 3/26 - G-1 1st MarDiv - S-1 3/5 and last unit was S-1 1/1/1. Sergeant Rex C. McBee Oct 67 to July 72. Photo by Rex C. McBee.
Subjects: Vietnam War, photographs, military personnel, military photography, sergeant
Local Identifier: 16-2958

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