Category: Vietnam War

Curfew lines and protest lines collide in Kent, Ohio, as an Ohio National Guardsman faces down a street where students refuse to simply disappear from view. The moment belongs to the Vietnam War era, when campus dissent spilled off quads and into town roads, and authority answered with uniforms, orders, and a demand for quiet.

Graffiti scrawled across a battered helmet—“HILL 875” and “The Smell of Death”—turns a piece of field gear into a blunt diary entry from the Vietnam War. The frame is tight and intimate, focusing on the soldier’s profile and the worn contours of the helmet, where dirt, sweat, and hurried handwriting compete for space. Even without…

A young serviceman kneels in the dirt of a Special Forces camp in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, holding two small puppies close as if they were precious cargo. Behind him, a rough wooden frame and draped tarps suggest an improvised living space, the kind built quickly and used hard. The line of large munitions shells stacked…

August 1968 hangs over this scene like a humid curtain: a crowded table, red beer cans scattered like small sentries, and tired uniforms worn loose in the heat. Faces turn toward the camera with a mix of ease and alertness—one man leans in close to the lens, another throws up a casual wave, and a…

Lean concentration settles over a cramped newsroom worktable where photo prints, contact sheets, and layout boards spill into one another. A boy in a short-sleeved shirt bends over the page with pencil in hand, while an older colleague studies the arrangement beside him, both absorbed in the quiet craft of turning raw images into a…

A twin‑engine USAF UC‑123K cuts low over a dense patchwork of Vietnam’s greenery, its broad wings marked by high‑visibility stripes as spray booms release long, pale plumes behind the aircraft. From this oblique, aerial vantage, the defoliant stream reads like a deliberate brushstroke laid across the canopy, following the plane’s steady line as it passes…

Mud, torn brush, and a low, urgent huddle of uniforms set the scene just south of the DMZ during the Vietnam War. In the foreground, a grimy helmet dips close as one American soldier braces a wounded comrade, the man’s head wrapped in a field dressing and his face slack with exhaustion. Hands press, support,…

Streaks of tracer fire carve bright arcs across a humid night sky, turning the horizon into a web of red lines and white-hot bursts. Below the light show, the outlines of a defended position—low buildings, earthworks, and rough tracks—sit in harsh, intermittent glare as automatic weapons rake outward. The long exposure effect emphasizes motion and…

Warm daylight and a line of coconut palms set the tone in this Vietnam War–era scene from South Vietnam, where village life appears to move at its own pace. A young boy pedals a bicycle along a dusty road, his conical hat catching the light as he passes rice fields and low, thatched structures tucked…

Sunlight washes over a dusty lane as two Vietnamese toddler boys linger beside a simple bamboo fence, their small figures framed by the everyday architecture of rural South Vietnam. One stands on a low block to peer over the rail while the other grips the bamboo slats, both barefoot and without pants in a scene…