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A couple of warriors holding hands, Vietnam, 1971

This picture is a demonstration of the soldier as a human. They’re using WWII era Russian equipment: Mosin Nagants and a helmet. They’re not part of the People’s Army of Vietnam judging by their civilian clothing.

Photo taken by German photojournalist Thomas Billhardt. Looking further into Billhardt’s photograph.

The U.S. government viewed American involvement in the war as a way to prevent a Communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of a wider containment strategy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. According to the U.S. domino theory, if one state went Communist, other states in the region would follow, and U.S. policy thus held that accommodation to the spread of Communist rule across all of Vietnam was unacceptable. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, as France was backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state.

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Vietnam War Child Smoke

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war.

Vietnam War Child

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Cambodian border March 1965

This above photo was taken by the German photographer and twice by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Horst Faas. Demonstrating that the US Army has deployed an army helicopter that holds the helicopters of the US Army to the tree line to meet the progression of the South Vietnamese troops while attacking Viet Cong camp, eighteen kilometers away from Tay Ninh  on the Cambodian border on March 1965.

War child in vietnam

Does anyone have any idea what's in this picture of May 14, 1966?

Henri Huet Vietnam War

The corpse of an American soldier killed while landing on a parachute in the Cambodian border is being removed by a helicopter from the region. Phote has takeb by Henri Huet.

American paratroopers try to cross river

American paratroopers are trying to cross the river in Vietnam. Henri Huet, the French war photographer who took this powerful image, died in 1971 when the helicopter he and three other photojournalists were in was shot down.

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A Victim of American Bombing is Carried

After a American bombing,  Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp in this Viet Cong haven on the Ca Mau Peninsula.

It has photographed by Vo Anh Khanh on September 15th 1970.

The colorization of the picture made by Marina Amaral.

Here you can find the original version of the photo below.

A Victim of American Bombing

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Muhammad Ali Saved a Suicidal Man in 1981

Does anyone know the person on the right in this picture that some of us have seen for the first time?

Muhammed Ali..

In 1981, he is trying to save a person who wants to commit suicide by jumping from the 9th floor of the building.

Ali saved a suicidal man who was threatening to jump out of a ninth-floor building in Los Angeles in 1981.

“Over the next few days, Ali spent over $2,000 getting the man clothes, an apartment and a job. The poor fellow broke down in tears. He couldn’t believe the heavyweight champion was helping him,” Bingham said.”
“He grasped Ali by the hands, tears running down his cheeks, and said: ‘I spent years alone after returning from Vietnam. ‘I became convinced that nobody cares whether I live or die, so I decided I would die – but you changed that for me. You have given me the strength to carry on,'” Bingham claimed.
Ali stayed in touch with the vet for years, Bingham said.
“The champ called him every few months. There’s no doubt that Ali saved his life and helped him get a new start,” he said.

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Hanoi During an Air Raid Alert Vietnam 1967

Hanoi is the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The population of Hanoi was the capital of Northern Vietnam between 1954 and 1976. Its population is 6,232,940 (2008).

Hanoi, the center of the French colonial government for many years, was occupied by Japan in World War II. The city was the capital of the Vietnam Socialist Republic on 2 July 1976.

The Vietnam War or the Second Indochinese War is the battle between the Eastern Bloc countries, the North Vietnamese, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, which is the US supporter, and the USA in particular. After the Korean War, it became the second hot battle of the Cold War. US troops were involved in the war from 1963 to 1973, and about 60,000 soldiers were killed.

Please click for more Vietnam pictures by Gilles Caron 

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Gilles Caron Vietnam November 1967

This picture has taken by Gilles Caron in 1967 and it is is exhibited in the Elysee Museum  in France.

Gilles Caron was a French photographer and photojournalist.

US Soldier in Vietnam December 1967

He started his career as a fashion photographer.

Vietnam War

In 1965, he worked in Paris Agency for Social Information. In 1967, together with several colleagues, they founded the photo agency Gamma.

A ten years old vietnamese child soldier called little tiger

As a photographer he worked in Israel, Vietnam, Biafra, Northern Ireland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Tibesti, Mexico and others.

Ibo soldier in Biefra for Nigerian Civil War

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