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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A young soldier from the South Vietnamese Popular Forces stands guard duty.
Photo taken: 1968

Pog
Those pictures are awesome, thanks for sharing them
Dick move, but it was certainly the pragmatic option.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brinks Hotel, Saigon after a bombing by the Viet Cong 24 December 1964. Two American officers were killed

Americans fighting for Rhodesia during the bush war i will post a few more photos in a couple days from my friends Instagram

Got a late Christmas present today, couldn't be happier!

oh damn that's awesome, that a real bounty poster?











