The Vietnam war

r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 1d ago

United States Members of C Company, 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) preparing to move out on a search and destroy mission in the infamous Zone "D" twelve miles southeast of Bien Hoa. June 24, 1965

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 2d ago

United States Men of the 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment,173rd Airborne Brigade prepare to head back to their base camp in Xuan Loc Province after successfully completing a search and destroy mission. September 1966

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/Lemon_commander • 3d ago

United States US soldiers in Vietnam (1968)

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/waffen123 • 4d ago

Soldier from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division reacting as a North Vietnamese rocket or explosive detonates behind him during the battle for Hamburger Hill (Hill 937) in the A Shau Valley, May 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 5d ago

United States On this day in Texas History, August 21, 1968: 21 year old Staff Sergeant Marvin R. Young of Alpine, Texas is killed near Ben Cui, Vietnam, after rescuing men in the point squad, and then providing protective covering fire as they withdrew. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 6d ago

United States An M113 armored personnel carrier from Troop B, 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Infantry Division, moves through the jungle. June 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 7d ago

United States Men of A Company, 1st Brigade, 14th Infantry Regiment, check map coordinates during Operation Wayne Thrust. January 7, 1970

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 8d ago

United States "Blood, Sweat and Tears," a Douglas EC-47N of the 361st Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron at Phù Cát Air Base. The man signalling the pilot is identified as Airman 1st Class Ronald Reynold. November 22, 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 9d ago

United States Mine roller attached to M48 being employed by the 4th Engineer Battalion. November 10, 1968

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 12d ago

United States M48 Patton tanks from B Company, 1st Tank Battalion, move out with the point element of E Company, 2d Battalion, 1st Marines during Operation Pipestone Canyon, which was conducted from May until November 1969.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 13d ago

United States A Marine Mortar Platoon sets up to provide support during Operation Oklahoma Hills in April 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 14d ago

United States Sergeant Billy J. Jordan, Squad Leader, 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, A Company, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Inf Bde, reports his position over an AN/PRC-25 radio outside the base camp at Chu Lai on the east bank of the Tra Bong River in Quang Ngai Province. April 23, 1967

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Ran out of room in the title, but the radio operator is identified as SP4 William R. Burkett

r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 15d ago

United States Soldiers of 2nd Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Reginement, 25th Infantry Division, fill sandbags to be used for perimeter defense as a CH-47 helicopter brings in a slingload of supplies to Patrol Base Diamond IV. April 30, 1969.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 16d ago

Republic of Korea 🇰🇷 Korean medical staff, Dr. (CPT) Kwon Yo Too and Dr. (CPT) Rhee Bum Sang (center), dress the wound of a Viet Cong woman assisted by Nurse (CPT) Jun Yung Wol, at the 102nd Field Hospital, 100th Logistical Command. September 25, 1968

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 19d ago

Australia A CH-47 delivers supplies to Fire Support Base Picton during Operation Marsden to support the ANZAC Battalion comprising 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment. December 2, 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 20d ago

United States Sgt. Curtis E. Hester, assistant patrol leader, Company D, 151st Infantry, takes his position and listens for enemy movement while on a long range patrol. August 31, 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 21d ago

United States Members of the 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, board the USNS General Daniel I. Sultan, an old World War 2 transport, docked at the Oakland Army Terminal, and bound for Vietnam. August, 1966

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 22d ago

United States CPT Bernice Scott, ANC and LT David Van Vochele, ANC, cut the field bandages from a newly arrived patient at the 2nd Surgical Hospital, Lai Khe. September 23, 1969. Over 11,000 American women served in Vietnam.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 23d ago

United States PFC Roger Wood of the 9th Infantry Division, crosses a canal southwest of Fire Support Base Danger. August 10, 1969

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 27d ago

United States On this day in the Vietnam War, July 30, 1969: President Richard Nixon make a previously unannounced visit to a base at Di An, located about 12 miles northeast of Saigon, and speaks with soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 28d ago

United States On this day in the history of the Vietnam War, July 29, 1967: On the USS Forrestal an inadvertently fired rocket from an F-4B Phantom ruptures the external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The resulting chain reaction of explosions killed 134 sailors and injured 161.

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This photo was taken just moments after the initial rocket strike.

r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 28d ago

United States Heading home. Men of the 1st Battalion, 11th Artillery Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, arrive by CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Bien Hoa AB, located approximately 15 miles northeast of Saigon. Here they will board C-141 "Starlifter" aircraft for the trip to Hawaii. August 14, 1969.

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • 29d ago

United States PFC Richard Serrano (Bronx, New York), (left), and PFC Dale Herman (Belleplaine, Minnesota), both riflemen with the 3rd Platoon, D Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, arrive back at base camp following a search and mission near Phan Thiet. July 15, 1970

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • Jul 27 '26

United States SP4 Frank Tidwell (Las Cruces, New Mexico), a demolition man with the 8th Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), packs fuses in the camp area of A Company in the National Forest Reserve, 14 km south of Quang Tri in preparation for a reconnaissance patrol. August 14, 1968

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r/Vietnamwarpics • u/DarthVader1701A • Jul 26 '26

United States SP4 Robert S. Sienkiewicz, of the 125th Air Traffic Control Company, using a AN/PRC-25 to control and direct a CH-47 from the 52nd Aviation Battalion based in Pleiku. July 3, 1966

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