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- Title
- Photograph Of Dale Hanson
- Description
- Photograph of Dale Hanson, 1968. Photo by David Wayne.
- Subjects
- soldiers, Airborne Brigade, snipers, military bases
- Local Identifier
- 16-3560
- Title
- Soldier Firing at a Sniper
- Description
- Soldier (possibly Bernie Weisz?) firing at a sniper in May of '66 north of base camp in Happy Valley 2nd Platoon. Photo by Dennis Blessing, 1966 Company B, 1/7 Cavalry.
- Subjects
- military camps, platoons, combat, combatants, battles, cavalry, guns, machine guns, firearms, snipers
- Local Identifier
- 16-3951
- 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 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
- Sniper George "Ben" Norman, 25th Infantry Division
- Description
- Vietnam Sniper - George "Ben" Norman - 25th Infantry Division - Vietnam 1970-1971. This is picture was taken in Long Binh, Vietnam at the rifle range. Once a month snipers were rotated out of the field for 3 days to clean and re-zero their rifles and scopes (Starlight and 3x9 ARTRedfield). In this picture I have a silencer attached to the XM21 sniper rifle which I nicknamed Eileen. I do not know of any other units besides the 25th Infantry Division that were using silencers while I was in Vietnam. When the silencer was attached to the rifle, it completely covered the front site making the iron sites useless…this made the sniper rifle only accurate between 300-900 meters with the scope, anything closer and we were shooting from the hip. When the silencer wasn't attached we could use both our iron sites and the scope giving us a complete range of targets.. At night when the starlight scope was attached our accuracy was up to 300 meters. While I was with the 25th Infantry I was assigned to the 3rd BN 22nd INF & 2nd BN 12th INF and occasionally I worked with the 1st of the 5th Mechanized Unit (Flame Throwers). When Charlie knew snipers were in the area he would 'didi mau.'" -Ben Norman. Photo by Ben Norman.
- Subjects
- soldiers, artillery, snipers
- Local Identifier
- 16-2952
- Title
- Ben Norman With A XM21 Sniper Rifle
- Description
- Ben Norman with a XM21 sniper rifle (modified M-14), the eye piece to the starlight scope in my ruck sack. The starlight scope attached to the XM-21 and gave them night vision accuracy up to 300 meters. "I was working with 1st of the 5th Mech Unit (Flame Throwers). The name of the APC (Armoured Personal Carrier) behind me is 'BIG GEL.'" -Ben Norman. Photo by Ben Norman.
- Subjects
- military personnel, soldiers, snipers, artillery, armored personnel carriers
- Local Identifier
- 16-2978
- Title
- Sniper, Ben Norman In A Rice Patty Field
- Description
- Vietnam Sniper -Ben Norman somewhere in a Vietnam rice patty field. 25th Infantry Division 1970 -1971. Photo by Ben Norman.
- Subjects
- snipers, artillery, fields, Vietnam War
- Local Identifier
- 16-3047
- Title
- Snipers, Norman And Vasquez Off Highway 1
- Description
- Vietnam Snipers, George "Ben" Norman and Mario A. Vasquez off Highway 1 working with 1st of the 5th Mech (Flame Throwers). 25th Infantry Division 1970 -1971. Photo by Ben Norman.
- Subjects
- soldiers, snipers, flamethrowers, alcohol, highways
- Local Identifier
- 16-3029
- Title
- Sniper Team Waiting For A Chopper Picking Up POW
- Description
- George "Ben" Norman and sniper team waiting for a chopper to pick up prisoners of war (POW). "He took a shot at us after we crossed a river in a sampan. After he shot at us he stripped down naked so his skin would blend in with the rice patty field and took off. I took a pot shot at him because I never really had a bead on him; he blended in so well I could not see him. I must really have been close because he stood up in the middle of the rice patty field and Chu Hoied 'gave up.' Of course we had him put his clothes back on!" -Ben Norman. Photo by Ben Norman.
- Subjects
- prisoners of war (POW), soldiers, snipers, artillery
- Local Identifier
- 16-3021