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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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