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Artillery of the 173rd airborne brigade fires a series of concentrations from one jungle clearing in war zone DDD (25 miles northeast of Saigon) into...

A marine of the 2nd Batt/4th Marines points and fires a bazooka (rocket launcher, 7.62) across a mined trail towards unoccupied bunker, trying to knoc...

A U.S. Marine pinned down by Sniper fire, looks back to check on his buddies as white phosphorous artillery rounds mark major Viet Cong position. Acti...

A cavalry soldier looks through a 'starlight scope' that is attached to an M 16 rifle in Vietnam on Jan. 13, 1967. The 'starlight' is a device that in...

A U.S. Machine gunner of the 1st infantry division peers from behind tree to which he and another trooper have advanced in attempt to search out a Vie...

Pfc. Daniel A. Rouseau, 20, left, of Willimansett, Mass., and Sp. 5 Willy H. Brown, 23, of Fort Mill, S.C., are a pair of Heroic Medics with a company...

An American infantryman keeps his eyes peeled for snipers that have opened up on U.S. helicopters approaching his battalion's position in the Thanh Di...

This is a 106 mm recoilless rifle that is being unloaded from a Chinook helicopter on Thanh Phu peninsula in the Mekong Delta by U.S. Marines in Vietn...

GI holds the needs of a "Tunnel Rat;" 38 caliber pistol with silencer to prevent damage to ear drums underground and a strong flashlight in January 19...

An American infantryman, his head and bayonet silhouetted against the rising sun, moves through tall grass vet with dew on a dawn patrol near South Vi...

Stretchers are stacked high and long under a roof of the U.S. Naval hospital complex at Da Nang, Vietnam on Dec. 30, 1966. Battle casualties are flown...

Gene Kelly directs the 20th Century-Fox movie "A Guide For The Married Man,", now in production in Hollywood, Dec. 29, 1966. In cap and gesturing, he...

Spaceman Lt. Col. Edwin E. Aldrin admires the decorations of Eagle Scout Mitchell Pohl of Brooklyn, N.Y., at the 1966 Eagle Scout recognition dinner i...

Air force policeman S/Sgt. Jerrel Woodard, Abilene, Texas, fires his M-16 into a heavy clump of Brush and Grass some 200 yards from Tan Son Nhuts main...

Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (second from right) examines an overcoat shown to her by Nicol Fontana, right, one of the proprietors of the Fontana Si...

Smoke grenades are lined across the back of the radio pack of Spec-4 Dean L. Weingarten of Covina, Calif., during an operation just north of Saigon in...

Artillery stands ready to support U.S. ground troops searching for the North Vietnamese near the Cambodian border in South Viet Nam's jungle mountains...

Infantryman points out a suspicious shadow in a tree to his machine gunner as they move on patrol near the Cambodian Border west of Pleiku in Vietnam...

Faces of American infantrymen are grim as they watch the jungles below and swirl in their helicopter deeper in the longtime Viet Cong stronghold area...

Artillerymen of the 4th Division change the position of their 105 cannon during a firing mission at the Cambodian border northwest of Pleiku in the ce...

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

Inflatable hospital units used by U.S. forces in South Viet Nam on Nov. 18, 1966. (AP Photo)

A U. S. infantryman kneels in high grass firing a M 79 grenade launcher towards a suspected Viet Cong sniper position in Vietnam on Nov. 10, 1966. He...

Bob Werder, President of Electric Tabulating Service, Inc., makes a final test of the computer that will be used totally Georgia election returns in A...

A young GI, his helmet pulled down and wearing a flak vest, keeps a watchful eye out for snipers in trees as an armored road recon convoy moves along...

Mortarman sights his mortar and signals with arms spread to his crew in Vietnam on Oct. 16, 1966. His gesture, which looks as if he is about to try an...

A soldier of the U.S. 1st Air cavalry division walks past burning hut in village in the Phu cat mountains in South Viet Nam on Oct. 14, 1966. Troops o...

With ammunition belts over his shoulders, a member of the 1st Battalion, 28th infantry crouches behind a hedge near the village of Chawh Luu, about 30...

81mm mortar gun crew of the 3rd battalion, 4th marine regt. Fires into North Vietnamese positions on hill 484 south of the DMZ in Vietnam on Oct. 2, 1...

81mm mortar gun crew of the 3rd battalion, 4th marine regt. Fires into North Vietnamese positions on hill 484 south of the DMZ in Vietnam on Oct. 2, 1...

Members of the 1st Battalion, 4th U.S. Marines run along a jungle trail "on the double" at the command of their platoon commander, second from right,...

A marine M48 tank fires its 90mm cannon and 50 caliber machine guns in support of marines operating in Hills and Valleys about 8 miles south of the de...

An exhausted marine rests in foreground while machine gunner fires across hedge over dike into North Vietnamese positions north of Gia Binh village in...

Portrait of French authoress Simone de Beauvoir taken at a public lecture in Tokyo, Japan on Sept. 22, 1966, before a packed crowd of Japanese audienc...

Marines of the 5th marine division's 1st battalion engage North Vietnamese troops in fire fight near the demilitarized zone between north and South Vi...

U.S. Marines of the fifth marine division look for targets as they engage North Vietnamese forces in a fire fight near the Demilitarized Zone of Viet...

Aerial view of the US Army's 3rd Field Hospital, the largest US war casualty hospital in the city of Saigon in Vietnam on Sept. 12, 1966. The hospital...

A paratrooper of the U.S. 173rd airborne brigade looks at what appears to be a modern abstract sculpture. It is in fact the remains of a jungle tree b...

French director Robert Bresson, center, has lifted a little autograph-hunting fan in his arms, as he his wife, right, and French producer Mag Bodard,...

Fish Street Hill, where the great fire raged in London in 1666, shown in September 1966. In background is the monument to the fire. (AP Photo)

Paratroopers of the 173rd airborne brigade crouch behind row of rubber trees along highway one in South Viet Nam after sniper fire interrupted their c...

U.S. soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Batt., 26th Infantry, 1st Division (big red one) wade through flooded rice paddies near Phu Loi, 15 miles north...

U.S. soldiers of Charlie Company, 1st Batt., 26th Infantry, 1st Division (big red one) wade through flooded rice paddies near Phu Loi, 15 miles north...