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
Vietnamese Navy boats laden with Vietnamese Army infantrymen swing along the Bien Tre river to launch a search mission some 50 miles south of Saigon in the Meking Delta's Kien Hoa province, July 11, 1967
William Morgan Hardman is interrogated by North Vietnamese military authorities in front of Hoan Kien Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam on Aug. 24, 1967. Hardman, a U.S. pilot, was captured after his plane was shot down.
21st August 1967
A-6A Intruder
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VA-196
USS Constellation
Hit by SAM during attack on Duc Noi railway yard, five miles northeast of Hanoi
William Hardman was interned as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam after he was shot down on August 21, 1967, and was held until his release on March 15, 1973.
WILLIAM (BILL) MORGAN HARDMAN 1933-2008 William (Bill) Morgan Hardman died Tuesday May 27th 2008. Bill was born November 16, 1933 in Saint Albans, WV.
This shows a direct hit with North Vietnam 122 mm shell explosion in a U.S. ammunition bunker of 175 mm cannon emplacements at Gio Linh, next to demilitarization zone between north and south Vietnam, Sept. 1967
The address is muddy bunker and the mailman wears a flak vest as CPL. Jesse D. Hittson of Levelland, Texas, reaches out for his mail at the U.S. Marine Con Thien outpost two miles south of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam on Oct. 4, 1967
and in the mean time………..
demonstrators hold up signs and American flags in support of U.S. policy in Vietnam in Wakefield, Mass., on Oct. 29, 1967. The demonstration was organized by 19-year-old Paul P. Christopher, a Wakefield high school senior who became "burned up" by anti-Vietnam War demonstrators.
Thank you young man, we needed some support…..
Local members of the "Hell's Angels" motorcycle club form a human pyramid to wave flag and lead cheers at rally supporting American men fighting in Vietnam. A crowd estimated by police at near 25,000 turned out for the rally held this on October 29, 1967 on Wakefield, Massachusetts
Thank you for your support…….
U.S. troops move toward the crest of Hill 875 at Dak To in November, 1967 after 21 days of fighting, during which at least 285 Americans were believed killed. The hill in the central highlands, of little apparent strategic value to the North Vietnamese, was nevertheless the focus of intense fighting and heavy losses to both sides.
HAMBURGER HILL, THE REAL STORY
General views of the destroyed montagnards of Dak son new life Hamlet, December 7, 1967 in Vietnam. Vietcong killed 114 of the villagers and wounded 47.
More than 12,000 U.S. Marines crowd into an outdoor amphitheater to watch comedian Bob Hope and Phil Crosby open Hope's USO Christmas Show tour at Da Nang, Vietnam, with Raquel Welch and singer Barbara McNair, left, Dec. 19, 1967.
My turn, Jan 15, 1968
U.S. Marines pass a Catholic church as they patrol near Danang, Vietnam, during the Vietnam War in 1968.
South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive on Feb. 1, 1968.
A large section of rubble is all that remained in this one block square area of Saigon on Feb. 5, 1968, after fierce Tet Offensive fighting.
First Lt. Gary D. Jackson of Dayton, Ohio, carries a wounded South Vietnamese Ranger to an ambulance Feb. 6, 1968
Bodies lay in the road leading from the village of My Lai, South Vietnam, following the massacre of civilians on March 16,1968. Within four hours, 504 men, women and children were killed in the My Lai hamlets in one of the U.S. military's blackest days.
TO BE CONTINUED
Amazing Gracie said... This hurts to see but not looking doesn't make it go away, either.
~~Our best friend's brother was in (pardon my lack of military jargon) Lt. Calley's (sp?)unit. The only thing that kept him from this horror was that he was on R&R. Thank God.
~~~Blessings~~~
September 30, 2010 7:39 PM
Sarge Charlie said...
That was a close call Miss Gracie. I have mentioned a young Vietnamese Man that worked for me who did not know who his father was so he adopted me as his father since I was in country. He lived in My Lai but was visiting a neighboring village on that day.
October 1, 2010 4:46 AM
4 comments:
A lotta sad history there, Sarge. Too, too many deaths. I hope these posts purge your soul and make your burden a tad easier. Thanks.
Big hugs, my friend...
This hurts to see but not looking doesn't make it go away, either.
~~Our best friend's brother was in (pardon my lack of military jargon) Lt. Calley's (sp?)unit. The only thing that kept him from this horror was that he was on R&R. Thank God.
~~~Blessings~~~
That was a close call Miss Gracie. I have mentioned a young Vietnamese Man that worked for me who did not know who his father was so he adopted me as his father since I was in country. He lived in My Lai but was visiting a neighboring village on that day.
My brother was in Viet Nam, and to this day never speaks about the tragedies over there.
My step-dad was there for the clean up, and he never speaks about it either.
The worst part of the war was the way fellow Americans treated our soldiers when they got home.
Bless you, Sarge, for having the courage to post this.
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