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.
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.
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.
.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.
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
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.
