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Red Crescent Worker

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker poses for a photograph while gathering supplies for tending to wounds. He wears a Red Crescent arm b...
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Explosive Testing in Everglades

Date: 1963
Description: Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L setting up to test an incendiary device in the Everglades. A man stands above a brown package in a gravel clear...
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Incendiary Fire, Commandos L

Date: 1963
Description: Fire set by an incendiary device made by the anti-Castro group Commandos L. In the extreme foreground the blurred image of a member of the group frames a s...
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Commandos L Making Explosives

Date: 1963
Description: Two members of the anti-Castro group Commandos L making explosive devices at the group's barracks/armory. One member is hammering cans closed on a table wh...
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Meal for Lao Infantrymen

Date: 05 1961
Description: Close-up of a meal for Colonel Bouchon's Lao infantrymen in the Luang Prabang vicinity, Laos. A man's arm is visible placing a tomato on one of a number of...
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Helicopter Loading at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: Loading of a military helicopter at Luang Prabang airport. A number of soldiers stand next to the helicopter which has its door open. 55-gallon drums of fu...
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Lao Infantrymen at Keukacham Meo Settlement

Date: 1961
Description: Two Lao infantry men posing for a picture on a dirt road next to a stack of crates in the Keukacham Meo settlement, Laos. A number of residents and soldier...
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Woman with Mule on Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: A woman carrying a basket on her back leads a mule laden with bundles across an airstrip at Keukacham village, Laos. There are 55-gallon drums near a tent,...
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Elevated View of Keukacham

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of Keukacham village, Laos. Three soldiers stand talking in the foreground by a large, open, white tent. In the background is a rubble pile, ...
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Damaged Building, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Building damaged by Viet Cong in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam. The pink building seems to have lost its roof and there is debris strewn about the yard. There are men...
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Woman on Stretcher

Date: 1962
Description: Vietnamese woman on a stretcher being carried to a helicopter for medical evacuation. The woman was injured during a Viet Cong raid on the village of Vinh ...
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Helilift Medical Evacuation

Date: 06 1962
Description: Civilians injured during a Viet Cong attack on the village of Vinh Quoi load into a helicopter for medical evacuation. Soldiers assist with the loading.
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Loading Army Helicopters

Date: 1962
Description: Troops load ammunition and rice delivered by plane to a forward airstrip into an Army helicopter in the Da Nang vicinity of Vietnam. Two of the men are car...
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Machine Gun in Helicopter Over Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Silhouette of a machine gun in an Army helicopter and a scenic view of the mountain region in Vietnam below. Green mountains rise next to developed country...
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Soldiers Smoking

Date: 06 1962
Description: Two soldiers under the command of U.S. Army advisor Major M.C. Curley in the delta region of Vietnam sitting on sandbags smoking cigarettes. The soldiers ...
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Vietnamese Soldiers Hike through Forest

Date: 1962
Description: Elevated view of a group of Vietnamese soldiers wearing berets hiking through a forest in Vietnam. The footpath they are on is bordered on one side by tree...
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Vietnamese Soldiers Question Prisoner

Date: 1962
Description: A small group of Vietnamese soldiers question a prisoner in a dry and rocky field in Vietnam. The soldiers are standing or crouching very close to the boun...
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Woman and Child on Footbridge

Date: 1962
Description: A woman carrying a child wrapped in a cloth crosses a log footbridge over a canal in the countryside in Vietnam. A boy is standing in the background and th...
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Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 05 1945
Description: Soldier offering food to Japanese women and children gathered on a roadside in Okinawa. One woman wears a baby on her back. Other soldiers watch from a jee...
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Soldiers Using Radio in Vietnam

Date: 1965
Description: Six soldiers along a roadside in Vietnam. One soldier operates a radio while another writes. Other men sit on the other side of the road, and in the far ba...

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