Message from @Clemens

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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

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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

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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

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2020-12-25 15:03:20 UTC  

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

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2020-12-25 15:05:27 UTC  

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

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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

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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

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2020-12-25 15:19:14 UTC  

IRA propaganda

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2020-12-25 15:33:50 UTC  

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

Photo taken: 1968

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2020-12-25 16:26:48 UTC  

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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2020-12-26 15:54:29 UTC  

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

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2020-12-26 15:55:05 UTC  

Ba Cut in Ca Tho Military Court in 1956 , leader of the religious movement the HΓ²a Hao, which had fought against the Viet Minh, Vietnamese National Army and Cao dai movement throughout the war

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2020-12-26 15:57:46 UTC  

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

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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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2020-12-26 16:02:34 UTC  

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

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2020-12-26 18:48:43 UTC  

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

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2020-12-27 00:00:58 UTC  

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

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2020-12-27 00:10:59 UTC  

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

2020-12-27 00:21:12 UTC  

oof

They treated the Chinese and Irish like Shit

2020-12-27 14:16:30 UTC  

i missed your message :\

2020-12-27 15:03:02 UTC  

Chechen militants who supposedly had contact with US intellegance in Azerbaijan (claimed by Vladimir Putin)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763630830249181184/792769515750555648/16073730352945915816128677704902.jpg

2020-12-27 15:06:13 UTC  

A Russian man who was born in Grozny sat beside a destroyed Russian tank, drinking a shot of Vodka in memory of the crew that died inside it

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