Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965. The troops were moving to attack a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.

A Vietnamese man holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle near the Cambodian border on March 19, 1964.

An unidentified U.S. Army soldier sports the slogan "War Is Hell" on his helmet in Vietnam on June 18, 1965.

A South Vietnamese soldier beats a farmer with the blunt end of a knife for allegedly supplying inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon. Jan. 9, 1964.

Comedian and actor Bob Hope entertains U.S. troops in front of the Hotel Hispanola, which was used as officers' quarters in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during the Vietnam War in 1965. Hope did regular tours abroad as a salute to American troops from 1964 through 1972, a tradition he had established during World War II.

U.S. Marines emerge from their muddy foxholes at sunrise after a third night of attacks by North Vietnamese troops on Sept. 21, 1966.

The body of an American paratrooper killed in action near the Cambodian border is raised to an evacuation helicopter in Vietnam in 1966.

Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie is led past stricken comrades after a fierce firefight for control of Hill 484 south of Vietnam's demilitarized zone in 1966.

U.S. Army helicopters providing support for ground troops fly into a staging area 50 miles northeast of Saigon in South Vietnam in 1966.

U.S. Army medic James E. Callahan of Pittsfield, Mass., tends to a seriously wounded soldier north of Saigon in June 1967.

American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-northeast of Saigon on June 15, 1967.

A soldier of the U.S. Seventh Marines carries a puppy in his pocket after rescuing it during an operation southwest of Da Nang in Vietnam on Jan. 22, 1968.

A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue in April 1969.

Veterans of the Vietnam conflict take part in an anti-war protest by piling their medals, decorations and awards in front of the U.S. Capitol on April 26, 1971. A veteran adds his helmet to the pile.

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.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea off the coast of Vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights from Saigon on April 29, 1975.

A South Vietnamese mother and her three children on the deck of an amphibious command ship being after being airlifted out of Saigon by U.S. Marine helicopters on April 29, 1975.

A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, marking the fall of South Vietnam to Communist forces on April 30, 1975. Saigon was rennamed Ho Chi Minh City, and the country was unified under Communist rule.

why u know history

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It's important not to judge historical figure's and culture's by the standards of the present day, but that doesn't make the people trying to use the past to justify this shit in the present day any less despicable

Those pictures wow

I got a couple of ones that I can't share here

Where did you get them?

I'll never tell

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Maybe you were the photographer

Yes I'm a time traveler

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But really I got some pretty messed up historical photos

Yeah there some spicy historical pics out there. By the way thanks for all the military and other history photographs and cliff-notes that add a bit of information to those pics, as a grunt I appreciate this stuff. P.O.B @Clemens

A Marine from 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, moves a suspected Viet Cong during a search and clear operation held by the battalion 15 miles (24 km) west of Da Nang Air Base, 1965.

Peasants suspected of being Viet Cong under detention of U.S. Army, 1966

Heavily bandaged woman burned by napalm, with a tag attached to her arm which reads "VNC Female" meaning Vietnamese civilian

U.S. soldiers searching a village for potential Viet Cong

Viet Cong soldier crouches in a bunker with an SKS rifle

The Ho Chi Minh trail was used to supply the Viet Cong

A strategic hamlet in South Vietnam c.1964

U.S. B-66 Destroyer and four F-105 Thunderchiefs dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder