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

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
152638
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

While Miss Bee wasn’t looking…..

I went shopping, and this was the results…………

now I have to explain why we have no money.  :>

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

An American F-105 warplane is shot down and the pilot ejects and opens his parachute in this photo taken by North Vietnamese photographer Mai Nam on September 1966 near Vinh Phuc, north of Hanoi. This photo is one of the most recognized images taken by a North Vietnamese photographer during the war. The pilot of the aircraft was taken hostage and held in a Hanoi prison from 1966 to 1973.

Paratroopers of the 173rd U.S. airborne brigade make their way across the Song Be River in South Vietnam en route to the jungle on the North Bank and into operation Sioux City in the D Zone on Oct. 4, 1966.

U.S. President Lydon B. Johnson reviews troops assembled in honor of his visit to the U.S. base at Cam Ranh Bay in South Vietnam on Oct. 26, 1966 during the war. Beside the President is Gen. William Westmoreland

Empty artillery cartridges pile up at the artillery base at Soui Da, some 60 miles northwest of Saigon, at the southern edge of War Zone C, on March 8, 1967.

this is what they looked like prior to firing

Three American marines sleep atop ammunition boxes during a pause in the fighting at Gio Linh on April 2, 1967, just south of the demilitarized zone in Vietnam.

 

A wounded U.S. soldier of the 1st Infantry Division, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, receives first aid after being rescued from a jungle battlefield south of the Cambodian border in Vietnam's war zone C, April 2, 1967

Anti-Vietnam war demonstrators fill Fulton Street in San Francisco on April 15, 1967.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leads a crowd of 125,000 Vietnam War protesters in front of the United Nations in New York on April 15, 1967, as he voices a repeated demand to "Stop the bombing."

A U.S. Marine sergeant points directions to a group of newly arrived replacement soldiers atop embattled Hill 881, below the demilitarized zone near the Laotian border, South Vietnam, in May 1967

A wounded member of the 1st Plt. Company "C," 25th Infantry Division, is helped to a waiting UH-1D "Iroquois" helicopter in Vietnam, May 10, 1967,

U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, crouch in the cover of a pagoda entrance as their patrol moves through a village along the Ben Hai river in the southern sector of the DMZ in South Vietnam, on May 22, 1967.

American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D on June 15, 1967.

Medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying soldier

 

James Edward Callahan, 62, died July 29, 2008, as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was a sergeant in the U.S. Army from 1965-69 and he served as a combat medic in Vietnam. He was a life member and president of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Chapter 65.

TO BE CONTINUED

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