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Title: Direct Mortar Hit to Tent
Description: Tent took direct hit from mortar.. One KIA, two WIA. Photo by Milt Brown
Subjects: military camps, mortars, field artillery, shelling (artillery projectiles), Killed In Action (KIA), Missing in Action (MIA), Vietnam War, Vietnam, combat, combat zones
Local Identifier: 16-3109

Title: Machine Gun Team of Vietnamese Paratroopers in Action
Description: Attack on Saigon (Tet Offensive) 31 January 1968 - A machine gun team of Vietnamese paratroopers in action near rail line one-half mile northeast of Ton San Nhut.
Subjects: Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), invaders, machine gun crews, machine guns, soldiers, battles, combat, combatants, paratroopers, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Local Identifier: 16-2915

Title: War Story From Britt Small
Description: Britt Small is reading the packing slip, CID, MP Platoon AO, LZ English. "Yep, that's me all right. The man standing next to me is Leo Spencer. He was the head of our team, & my first partner. He was from Louisiana, & was a school-trained CID agent. Leo was also a Korean War veteran, & had been a tank commander during that war. As you can see, he was a big man, about 300 lbs, & he could really make that jeep behind us roll. We were coming back to LZ English on QL-1 late one night, after investigating a shooting at LZ North English, & we got ambushed from both sides of the road. We were following the MPs V-100, which was carrying the shooter for safety. The V-100 was an armored vehicle with big tires, & angled sides, so that the bullets would bounce off of it in all directions. We could see the tracers going in all directions. Leo was driving, & I was in the back seat behind him on the left. There were four of us in the jeep. John Entwhisle was in the backseat on the right side next to me. He was scooted down behind the radio, & firing his Car-15 to the right. I was scooted down too, & firing to the left. Leo had the lights off, he stomped on the gas, & put the nose of the jeep right under the back of the V-100, so that the rounds went over us. We were going about 70 mph, & Leo was fearless driving that jeep. The V-100 got at least one tire hit, but it was made with an inner tire, so they just swerved a little, & kept on going. None of us got hit, but the canvas on the jeep didn't fair very well. We made it to LZ English, & stopped just inside the gate. We had to pull the other Lifer CID guy out of the foot well of the right front seat. He hadn't fired a shot. He did wet his pants, though. Well boys & girls, that's the end of my war story. I was supposed to start it with "& this is no shit," but I forgot. There were many more adventures after this one. Leo, the old tanker saved our asses because he was fearless, & he could really wheel that jeep. I'm sure Leo is gone now, but he saved our lives. God bless your memory, Brother. We'll always remember you. The 173rd Airborne Brigade Frontier Cops." - Britt Small. Photo by Jerry W. Colwell
Subjects: Airborne Brigade, jeeps, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Landing Zone (LZ), soldiers, radio, combatants, combat, Vietnam War, Vietnam, ambush, armored cars, storytelling, storytellers, air bases, Veterans
Local Identifier: 16-3277

Title: Soldier Who Was KIA and Served Between 1966 and 1967
Description: "SP4 James McDonald RIP. Served C Company, 2/3d Infantry (Old Guard), 199th Light Infantry Brigade (Separate), Republic of Vietnam, 1966-67. Rest in peace, Mighty Warrior! May God be with you and keep you. You suffered much, yet you triumphed over life." (The rank of SP4 once denoted the fourth grade of the specialist rank in the U.S. Army. The term was abandoned in favor of "SPC," the only specialist rank, and is roughly equivalent to the rank of corporal.) Photo and comment by William Carr Jr.
Subjects: Vietnam, soldiers, Killed In Action (KIA), combat
Local Identifier: 16-2563

Title: Combat Assaults Over the Bong Son Area
Description: Combat Assaults over the Bong Son Area, late '67. Photo by Bill Moore, Company B, 1/7 Cavalry. Repaired by the "Master" Dan Fox
Subjects: combatants, guns, machine guns, helicopters, gunners, battles, Vietnam War
Local Identifier: 16-4366

Title: Military Aircraft Landing at Khe Sanh Under Fire
Description: C-130 Landing at Khe Sanh Under Fire, "Getting there was half the story." U.S Air Force and Navy Jets put down a line of defensive fire as they engage in the protection of a C-130 transport preparing for departure from the Marine base at Khe Sanh. Enemy forces were spotted moving along a mountainside in full view of the base just after the C-130 landed a load of ammunition. Air strikes were called in and the enemy's apparent plan to destroy the aircraft and its cargo was foiled U.S. Air Force photo.
Subjects: aircraft, airports, combat, combatants, air forces, transport aircraft, military bases, Viet Cong, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), United States Forces, air strikes, airstrips
Local Identifier: 16-2905

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: Viet Cong POW With Helicopter Pilots
Description: Viet Cong POW. Photo by Jim Lundy, a Cobra pilot a Scout Door Gunner with the Scout Platoon, D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin, mike@dtroop.com http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, prisoners of war (POW), prisoners, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, combatants, captured, D-troop, scouts, cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, gunners, pilots
Local Identifier: 16-4370

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: Viet Cong Attacking U.S. Military Camp
Description: "Get Those Trucks Moved!" More messages from the North. Photo by Barney Rouse, "C" Battery, FDC, 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery Regiment, RVN 1966-67.
Subjects: combat, attacks, combatants, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), military vehicles, military camps, Vietnam War, Vietnam, guerrilla warfare
Local Identifier: 16-2938

Title: Remains of a Crashed Huey
Description: "The remains of #665." Photo and comment by Tom Everhart
Subjects: helicopters, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, wreckers, combat, damage, Army
Local Identifier: 16-3794

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: Vietnamese, Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Viet Cong, troops, communists, marines, combat, combatants, recoilless, rifles, tanks
Local Identifier: 16-2901

Title: Bunker 123, the Morning After it Was Almost Overrun by Viet Cong
Description: Bunker 123, almost overran. Combatants (Viet Cong) came right up to the wire at night. Beehive rounds fired point blank took care of them all. Photo by John Wray, a "Blues" gun pilot with the Scout Platoon, D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. Dec., 1969-Dec.1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: scouts, platoons, D-troop, 1st Cavalry Division, guns, Viet Cong, bunkers, machine guns, combatants, battles, combat, rounds, Weapons and Ammunition
Local Identifier: 16-4325

Title: South Vietnamese Special Forces Troopers Led by U.S Green Beret Officers Reoccupy a Hilltop Outpost
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: troops, combat, Special Forces
Local Identifier: 16-4500

Title: Soldier Guarding a Viet Cong Prisoner Of War
Description: Soldier sits with and guards a Viet Cong POW. Photo by Jim Lundy, a Cobra pilot a Scout Door Gunner with the Scout Platoon, D-Troop, 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. 1969-1970. Courtesy of Mike Gustin. http://www.dtroop.com/
Subjects: prisoners of war (POW), prisoners, guards, prison guards, soldiers, combatants, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamese
Local Identifier: 16-4400

Title: Soldiers Delivered to Battle via UH-1 Helicopter
Description: UH-1 helicopter, aerial delivery of personnel. During the Vietnam War, the United States relied on the helicopter as never before. The helicopter's role in combat expanded enormously in this conflict as thousands of "choppers" rapidly transported personnel throughout the war zone. Heavily armed helicopters offered a fearsome component to ground operations as close air support. Photo by Douglas Pike.
Subjects: combat, Vietnam War, helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, Huey helicopters, aerial activities, soldiers, war photography, military personnel, U.S. Military
Local Identifier: 16-2943

Title: Khe Sanh, Start of the Tet Offensive
Description: Khe Sanh, January, 1968. The start of the Tet Offensive.
Subjects: combat, combatants, Vietnam, Vietnam War, North Vietnamese Army (NVA), United States Forces, shelling (artillery projectiles), explosions, Tet Offensive, explosive and incendiary materials, explosive weapons, explosives, war photography
Local Identifier: 16-2907

Title: After a North Vietnamese Attack
Description: While patrolling FSB Coral’s perimeter after a North Vietnamese attack, a member of 1RAR steps over the body of a North Vietnamese soldier killed during assault.
Subjects: combatants, battles, Royal Australian Regiment (RAR), Killed In Action (KIA), soldiers, guerrilla warfare
Local Identifier: 16-4744

Title: Broken Shark
Description: A broken Shark (Huey helicopter) - 174th Assault Helicopter Company (AHC). Photo by Milt Brown
Subjects: helicopters, Huey helicopters, Iroquois Helicopters, combat, Wounded in action (WIA), U.S. Military, wounded
Local Identifier: 16-3125

Title: KIA During The Tet Offensive
Description: This was taken during the Tet Offensive in February, 1968 in Kontum, RVN. Photo by Fred Childs
Subjects: Killed In Action (KIA), combatants, combat, battles, soldiers, guerrilla warfare
Local Identifier: 16-3913

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