Vietnam, a look back … continued

A photo journal of the Vietnam War, early 1960’s to the fall of Saigon, 1975.  It was a troubling time for the United States and severely effected my life along with another 3,403,100 men and women that served in South East Asia Theater during the war.

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic."

Richard Nixon

 

First Cavalry Division Medic Thomas Cole, from Richmond, Va., looks up with his one uncovered eye as he continues to treat a wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison Pell during a January 1966 firefight

Cover story:  Though wounded himself Pfc Thomas Cole continues to aid his comrades.

Operation Masher: The War Goes On: As the 1st Cavalry Division Strikes Hard at the Vietcong, President Johnson, Faced with Hard Facts, Reluctantly Orders a Resumption of Bombing Raids Against North Vietnam. Photographed by Henri Huet

Weary after a third night of fighting against North Vietnamese troops, U.S. Marines crawl from foxholes located south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Vietnam, 1966. The helicopter at left was shot down when it came in to resupply the unit.

Pfc. Lacey Skinner of Birmingham, Ala., crawls through the mud of a rice paddy in January of 1966, avoiding heavy Viet Cong fire near An Thi in South Vietnam

U.S. troops carry the body of a fellow soldier across a rice paddy for helicopter evacuation near Bong Son in early February 1966.

A helicopter lifts a wounded American soldier on a stretcher during Operation Silver City in Vietnam, March 13, 1966.

demonstrating against the Vietnam War as they march through downtown Philadelphia, Pa, March, 26 1966.

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division carry a wounded buddy through the jungle in May 1966.

helicopter hovers over the field, ready to load personnel and equipment during Operation Masher in the Vietnam War, May 7, 1966.

A young paratrooper with a mud-smeared face stares into the jungle in Vietnam on July 14, 1966

A U.S. Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter comes down in flames after being hit by enemy ground fire during Operation Hastings, just south of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam, July 15, 1966.

Pinned down by Viet Cong machine gun fire, a U.S. medic looks over at a seriously wounded comrade as they huddle behind a dike in a rice paddy, near Phu Loi, South Vietnam, August 14, 1966.

  A U.S. infantryman from A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry carries a crying child from Cam Xe village after dropping a phosphorous grenade into a bunker cleared of civilians during an operation near the Michelin rubber plantation northwest of Saigon, August 22, 1966.

TO BE CONTINUED