Message from @Clemens

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2020-12-25 07:36:08 UTC  

Senior officers arrive with Robert E. Cushman, Commandant of the Marine Corps, for a briefing in Hue on RVN Marine Corps operations.

Left to right:
General Robert E. Cushman,
Colonel Joshua W. Dorsey III, Senior Marine (USMC) advisor in Military Region 1, RVN
Brigadier General Bui The Lann, Commandant, RVN Marine Corps
Lieutenant Colonel Dwayne Gray, Officer In Charge, Sub-Unit #1, ANGLICO, RVN
Brigadier General Edward J. Miller, Commanding General, 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade

Photo taken: June 1972

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/791932275608518666/16087056315013480289691687391807.jpg

2020-12-25 07:44:41 UTC  

Members of the 1st Platoon, Co ‘C’, 4th Bn., 47th Inf., 9th Inf., Div., pause for a radio check during a patrol.

The soldier in the foreground carries an M79 Grenade Launcher.

Photo taken: October 1968

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/791934427935670272/16087055915168714474232317378396.jpg

2020-12-25 07:47:03 UTC  

I got a book or ww2 soldiers making a snow women

2020-12-25 07:48:55 UTC  

ARVN infantrymen display propaganda leaflets and a flag captured by them during a drive against Viet Cong guerrillas.

Photo taken: June 1962

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/791935494992298004/16087052875784597198956892401322.jpg

2020-12-25 11:10:16 UTC  

The music in the background is a bit annoying, but Tony Robinson is a damn good host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gpectv-3uc

2020-12-25 14:12:03 UTC  

A Radio Telephone Operator (RTO)of the 101st Airborne on patrol near Mai Loc, twelve miles from the DMZ.

A Light Observation Helicopter (Loach) of the 17th Cavalry flies overhead.

Photo taken: October 1969.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792031910564986900/16087050623354655845865120733770.jpg

2020-12-25 14:13:50 UTC  

A tiger stripe clad reconnaissance team member of the 101st Airborne prepares to blow a bunker as part of Operation Van Buren.

Photo taken: February 1966

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792032360413265970/16087044716637957370210932567094.jpg

2020-12-25 14:15:56 UTC  

A U.S Air Firce Douglas Skyraider drops a white phosphourus bomb on Viet Cong positions in South Vietnam in 1966

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792032890903855124/16077909125676100979216240635989.jpg

2020-12-25 14:24:30 UTC  

Task force 77 (1965)

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2020-12-25 14:27:44 UTC  

A Viet Cong prisoner captured in 1967 by the U.S Army awaits interrogation

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792035857249861642/16077908233891500166940538892639.jpg

2020-12-25 14:33:02 UTC  

A photo from the U.S Information Agency allegedly shows a 23 year old Le dan Van who defected from the Communists to the South but was captured by the Viet Cong and spent a year in a Viet Vong internment camp

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792037188929847316/160779041347372343528157625459.jpg

2020-12-25 14:34:35 UTC  

Members of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne prepare for the first major ground combat operation of the Vietnam war

Together with Australian and ARVN troops, the 173rd undertake a search and destroy mission in War Zone "D", north west of Saigon (III Corps).

The solider on the right has woven strips of camouflage parachute silk into net to break up the outline of his helmet.

Photo taken: June 1965

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792037581424295976/1608703864600586206457448106164.jpg

2020-12-25 14:37:50 UTC  

A member of the 101st Airborne on Operation Van Buren sets fire to a village hut containing Viet Cong rice stocks.

Photo taken: January 1966

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792038398177181696/16087043522945246787896489475075.jpg

2020-12-25 14:40:20 UTC  

A rifle squad of the 173rd Airborne on a search and destroy mission in Phuoc Tuy province (III Corps), late in 1966.

The two soldiers behind the lead man carry mortar base-plates.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792039030338486282/16087054372208397570848011057538.jpg

2020-12-25 14:41:21 UTC  

Captain David Helela, MAAG Advisor, with members of the Vietnamese 21st Division aboard a CH-21 helicopter travelling to a combat drop zone.

Photo taken: February 1963

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792039285053849631/1608705359809975114435868830804.jpg

2020-12-25 14:43:14 UTC  

MAAG Advisors Lt. Colonel John Brooks and Major Chester Peterson discuss Strategic Hamlet construction with province chief Major Tran Van Minh.

Photo taken: Ben Cat (III Corps) 21st July 1962

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792039757215301642/16087236435694699701059082031351.jpg

2020-12-25 14:47:24 UTC  

The big AN-12 cargo plane was used to bringhte bodies from from Afghanistan

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792040806051086346/16076774522812586515519616467982.jpg

2020-12-25 14:52:18 UTC  

A wounded paratrooper who is injured, looks at photos of his friends that were killed in Bagram

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792042040568971264/1607676639812843679726915011934.jpg

2020-12-25 15:03:20 UTC  

Last day on Afghan soil, a soldier takes back ammunition in Hairat

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792044817269522432/16076765830736113177479333167195.jpg

2020-12-25 15:05:27 UTC  

For the journey back to the Soviet Union coffins were codenamed 'Cargo 200'

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792045350382469187/1607677568442787778053306501246.jpg

2020-12-25 15:08:37 UTC  

Residents of the Afghan regional capital Khost greet Soviet soldiers as they return from operation against the Mujahideen May 26 1986

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792046145844019200/16076757583009008068779006124182.jpg

2020-12-25 15:10:20 UTC  

Afghan guerillas have lunch next to a Soviet helicopter after it was shot down in Nuristan, Afghanistan

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792046577945411584/16076501357307110765923467620490.jpg

2020-12-25 15:13:33 UTC  

Lest we forget

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2020-12-25 15:15:47 UTC  

Fort Vaux

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792047950552760330/image2-1.jpg

2020-12-25 15:19:14 UTC  

IRA propaganda

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792048816449912852/a4b53dda615d6d39601732bfaef9a012.png

2020-12-25 15:33:50 UTC  

A young soldier from the South Vietnamese Popular Forces stands guard duty.

Photo taken: 1968

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792052490676994048/16087047287398689762064125152716.jpg

2020-12-25 16:26:48 UTC  

Viet Cong soldiers captured by U.S Marines outside of Don Ha 1968

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792065819328249856/16077910818654306762902069341564.jpg

2020-12-26 07:29:27 UTC  

Pog

2020-12-26 11:27:58 UTC  

Those pictures are awesome, thanks for sharing them

2020-12-26 12:28:45 UTC  

Dick move, but it was certainly the pragmatic option.

2020-12-26 15:50:22 UTC  

Weary looking Soviet soldiers ride atop their armoured personnel carriers as they were travelling on a highway in Kabul heading for the Soviet border in 1988

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419038994235392/1607651047656530502169250545310.jpg

2020-12-26 15:51:02 UTC  

Afghan Jazail flintlocks, these were actually used against the soviets to a very limited extent during the first year of the conflict

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419208611758110/jezailflintlock.jpg

2020-12-26 15:52:02 UTC  

Muslim rebels inspect a captured Soviet APC after fighting with the Afghan government near Asmar, Afghanistan on December 27 1979, three days after the Soviet invasion

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419457711603782/16076489577915693294704710425569.jpg

2020-12-26 15:52:34 UTC  

2nd Lt. Carl Conn looks on as a civilian bus leaves the road in order to by-pass holes dug by the Viet Cong.

Photo taken: January 1963

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419593058385950/16087238478764798926879765130589.jpg

2020-12-26 15:53:03 UTC  

MAAG advisors after receiving medals for valor at the battle of Ap Bac on 2nd January 1963.

Photo taken: MAAG Compound, Cholon, Saigon. 25th January 1963

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419715397058600/16087236030502118573697240180501.jpg

2020-12-26 15:53:54 UTC  

Major General Louis B. Robertshaw introduces Governor John Love (Colorado) to a group of Marine Corps pilots at the DaNang Air Base.

Photo taken: May 1967

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792419928908234792/16087057184873420686030701286166.jpg

2020-12-26 15:54:29 UTC  

A.B. Grantham, a Marine who was shot in the chest in 1968

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792420075725389834/16086914130256964479046627809024.jpg

2020-12-26 15:55:05 UTC  

Ba Cut in Ca Tho Military Court in 1956 , leader of the religious movement the Hòa Hao, which had fought against the Viet Minh, Vietnamese National Army and Cao dai movement throughout the war

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792420228595580928/16077895154252415285596761176682.jpg

2020-12-26 15:57:46 UTC  

A U.S propaganda leaflet urges Viet Cong to defect using the Chieu Hoi program

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792420905582067722/16077913675407265033138196621841.png

2020-12-26 15:59:24 UTC  

U.S president Dwight D. Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles meets with South Vietnamese President, Ngo dinh Diem in Washington D.C 8 May 1957

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