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A Meal in Vietnam
A Meal in Vietnam

A Meal in Vietnam

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  • A Meal in Vietnam: a young girl eats with other Vietnamese refugees from Cambodia at a reception camp set up by the South Vietnamese government in Tien Bien, near the Cambodian border about 120 miles west of Saigon. Several thousand Vietnamese fled Cambodia as news has spread of massacres of Vietnamese by Cambodian troops, April 22, 1970
Artist (American, born New Zealand, born 1934)
Publisher (American, founded 1846)
Date1970
ClassificationsPhotograph
MediumGelatin silver print with applied pigment
Dimensions10 x 8 in.
Credit LineGift of the Schoor Family
Keyword/Subject
Object number2022.0125
Copyright© Associated Press
American and South Vietnamese units are beginning to work together more often — but some think the result is an even greater dependence on U.S. troops, with no gain in Vietnamese efficiency. The Vietnamese are unwilling to give up a fraction of their command. One U.S. adviser said recently: “All I do now is settle disputes between them (Vietnamese) and the Americans.” Shown here is a combined operation between Vietnamese Rangers and the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade on the edge of the Mekong Delta
American and South Vietnamese units are beginning to work together more often — but some think the result is an even greater dependence on U.S. troops, with no gain in Vietnamese efficiency. The Vietnamese are unwilling to give up a fraction of their command. One U.S. adviser said recently: “All I do now is settle disputes between them (Vietnamese) and the Americans.” Shown here is a combined operation between Vietnamese Rangers and the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade on the edge of the Mekong Delta
Peter Arnett
1967
A U.S. Marine loses his helmet as he ducks behind a tree as a second marine hugs the ground, his M16 rifle alert, after being fired upon by an undetermined number of North Vietnamese soldiers in the jungle southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam, the action took place near an enemy regimental base camp on April 22, 1969
A U.S. Marine loses his helmet as he ducks behind a tree as a second marine hugs the ground, his M16 rifle alert, after being fired upon by an undetermined number of North Vietnamese soldiers in the jungle southwest of Da Nang, South Vietnam, the action took place near an enemy regimental base camp on April 22, 1969
Yvon Cornu
1969
This Air Force photo, taken by Lieutenant Colonel Morgan R. Beamer of Salinas, California, in an RF-4C Phantom, shows the intense ground fire faced by United States pilots flying missions over North Vietnam.
This Air Force photo, taken by Lieutenant Colonel Morgan R. Beamer of Salinas, California, in an RF-4C Phantom, shows the intense ground fire faced by United States pilots flying missions over North Vietnam.
Morgan R. Beamer
1966
"Goodbye Vietnam"
"Goodbye Vietnam"
George Esper
1969
Market In A War
Market In A War
Peter Arnett
1969
Watching The War
Watching The War
Peter Arnett
1967
Conquest With A Question
Conquest With A Question
Peter Arnett
1967
Pham van Dong With Americans
Pham van Dong With Americans
Peter Arnett
September 27, 1972
Confiscating Enemy Ammunition
Confiscating Enemy Ammunition
Yvon Cornu
1969
The Other Victims
The Other Victims
Yvon Cornu
1969
Oath for Johnson on Air Force One: President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president by Judge Sarah T. Hughes as his wife and Mrs. John F. Kennedy flank him in cabin of the presidential plane -- Air Force One, November 22, 1963
Oath for Johnson on Air Force One: President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president by Judge Sarah T. Hughes as his wife and Mrs. John F. Kennedy flank him in cabin of the presidential plane -- Air Force One, November 22, 1963
Cecil Stoughton
1963, printed 1967
Army ‘Copter Pilot Eric (Crazy) Rairdon: “Suddenly I saw two bullet holes appear,” August 1969
Army ‘Copter Pilot Eric (Crazy) Rairdon: “Suddenly I saw two bullet holes appear,” August 1969
Tom Barlet
1969