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Friday, April 30, 2010

April 30 End of Vietnam War



U.S. Marines emerge from their muddy foxholes at sunrise after a third night of fighting against continued attacks of north Vietnamese 324 B division troops during the Vietnam War.

April 30 End of Vietnam War


A South Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam.

DEATH ON EVERY SIDE (April 30 End of Vietnam War )



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 in Vietnam's War Zone D. June 15, 1967

April 30 End of Vietnam War



A Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. June 11,

April 30 End of Vietnam War


Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam. January 1, 1966

(AN EXECUTION ) April 30 End of Vietnam War


A vivid image from the war. South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive. February 1, 1968.