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Jerry Jones, 17, Denver, Colorado, found that the landing on a nylon carpeted ski run can be harder than the actual snow. Jones was participating in a...

Doug Crowe, 17, Costa Mesa, Calif., explains to Frank Anderson, Kenova, West Virginia, how the remote control Moonmobile works at the Third National E...

From atop an armored personnel carrier reinforced with sandbags, a GI wearing a well decorated helmet and flak jacket trains his machine gun on the ju...

Troops crouch in mud-filled ditch as they come under fire from other side of a thicket while trying to cross a creek in Vietnam on August 14, 1966. Tr...

GIs crouch as a other platoon move past their position beside a cornfield near a creek in Virtnam on August 14, 1966. Troops of 1st inf., division ass...

Smoking cannon of the 9th artillery battery, 25th division is quickly reloaded during action near the Cambodian border in South Viet Nam on August 13,...

Paratroopers of the 101st airborne crouch behind a log, firing against Viet Cong guerrillas maneuvering against them in thick jungle near Lac Giang, c...

Houston Explorer Scouts were given trophies and a kiss from Aqua Festival Queen Chica Gray after winning the five-day, 100-mile canoe race in Austin,...

Two marines stay low to evade sniper fire as they keep guard over wounded buddy a few miles south of the demilitarized zone during operation Hastings...

U.S. Marine artillery crew load and fire their 105mm gun toward suspected North Viet Namese position in hills just south of the demilitarized zone bet...

U.S. Marine artillery crew load and fire their 105mm gun toward suspected North Viet Namese position in hills just south of the demilitarized zone bet...

U.S. Marine artillery crew load and fire their 105mm gun toward suspected North Viet Namese position in hills just south of the demilitarized zone bet...

U.S. Marine artillery crew load and fire their 105mm gun toward suspected North Viet Namese position in hills just south of the demilitarized zone bet...

A United States marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Viet Nam...

PFC Stephen H. Gardner from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a member of Company "A", 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division is...

Patrol along the border, heavily armed fireteam of C company, 1st Batt, 35th Infantry (of the third Brigade taskforce of the 25th Division) wades thro...

Paratroopers of the U.S. 101st airborne division, 1st brigade, move swiftly up hill Northeast of Dak to in the South Vietnamese central highlands unde...

Ray Harroun, winner of the first Indianapolis 500-mile auto race 55 years ago, remembers little about his victory, instead he'd rather talk about cars...

A U.S. paratrooper, hunched in the undergrowth alongside a barbed wire outpost is silhouetted against the sun rising over the jungle of the Viet Nam c...

An assault line of paratroopers of the U.S. 1st air cavalry division advances toward the edge of the jungle in the central highlands of South Viet Nam...

Ray Harroun, Anderson, Ind., the first winner of the Indianapolis 500-mile race in 1911 and Cliff Bergere, Indianapolis, talk things over in the 1911...

Sea Scouts from the Rochester, N.Y., area who are being awarded quartermasters certificates pose in the courtyard at the Rayburn Building in Washingto...

As medic attends the wounded, American soldiers in Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street shoot and run on May 10, 1966. GI at right wears armore vest. Shooting...

As medic attends the wounded, American soldiers in Saigon's Hai Ba Trung Street shoot and run on May 10, 1966. GI at right wears armore vest. Shooting...

An American medic and an American MP crawl toward three Vietnamese victims of gun battle that raged after an explosion of a device believed to be a cl...

American MPS advance down Hai Ba Trung Street in Saigon on May 9, 1966 after an explosion believed to be a terrorist-planted claymore mine went off ne...

The chances of rescuing men trapped in the sea in disabled submarines will be greatly increased under a new U.S. Navy program. It is starting producti...

The chances of rescuing men trapped in the sea in disabled submarines will be greatly increased under a new U.S. Navy program. It is starting producti...

A twig in his mouth and carrying a native Montagnard Tribesman's bow and arrow, a U.S. soldier of the 1st air cavalry division advances through the ju...

American troops of the 2nd Battalion of the 16th Infantry crawl through entangled roots and branches of jungle trees as they advance on suspected Viet...

Men of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, rush ahead for an attack across a clearing as the helicopter that brought them into jungle near the Rach...

Struggle against chopper blast fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast fr...

Fully equipped soldiers of the U.S. 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry, struggle through the grass against the stormy blast from rotors of helicopter which l...

Soldiers of the 1st battalion, 2nd infantry, fire 105mm artillery pieces across the Rach Beng River at Viet Cong in Cambodia on May 2, 1966. The Ameri...

Scouts Steve Goldsmith, left, and Bob Furbish of troop 84, Somerville, plant tree seedlings under direction of explorer post 154 advisor al Tarbox at...

A Vietnamese mountain man shuts his eyes tight and opens wide as American medic examines his throat with odd-looking device from the exotic west in Vi...

American soldiers of the big red one (1st battalion, 2nd infantry of the 1st infantry division) rush from helicopter and crouch in tall grass before a...

George Pappas hold his .45 pistol in one hand and flashlight in the other as he crawls from a Vietcong tunnel in Vietnam on April 18, 1966. Paratroope...

U.S. Navy ordnance men check for contamination on an H-bomb on deck of the USS petrel off Palomares Beach, Spain on April 8, 1966, after the bomb was...

This device, called a Cable-controlled Underwater Research Vehicle (CURV) is one of the aids employed by United States Navy searchers to seek and reco...

Michael H. Rosen of the American Civil Liberties Union speaks to an integrated group of students attending a freedom school during a boycott of Seattl...

The larger submarine "Aluminaut," which is in the H-bomb recovery program, during a helicopter flight over the recovery area in Palomares Beach, Spain...

The midge submarine "Alvin", at left, which is in the H-bomb recovery program, seen during a helicopter flight over the recovery area in Palomares Bea...

U.S. Marines run around nose of helicopter which has just landed them near assault beach of Saigon river Delta 35 miles southwest of Saigon on March 2...

Crewmen of the midget sub Aluminaut Scan the sea before joining in efforts to retrieve the missing H-bomb off Palomares Beach, Spain on March 26, 1966...

The tiny research sub "Alvin" -- which found the missing H-bomb in 2,500 feet of water, gets its batteries recharged aboard the landing ship (docks) "...

The Reynolds research submarine, Aluminaut, is seen getting an underwater checkup, off Palomares Beach, Spain on March 23, 1966, before joining in dee...

In the spotlight since a United States' jet plane collision on January 17, residents of the area around Palomares, Spain, carefully grade the new toma...

Farmers sow rows of Melon seeds in the decontaminated fields in the Palomares beach area of Spain on March 21, 1966 while the heavy bruiser Albany in...

Maj. Gen. Delmar Wilson, behind banner at left, receives placard reading: "Wilson's troops have been correct with Palomares." The presentation was mad...