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History > 20th century > Cold War > USA, Vietnam
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Photographer Huynh Thanh My, pinned down with a Vietnamese battalion in a Mekong Delta rice paddy on 13 October 1965, about a month before he was killed while covering combat.
His younger brother, Nick Ut, later came to work for the AP as a photographer
Photograph: AP
Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures G Wednesday 22 April 2015 11.13 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-
A soldier's eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam Boston Globe 2013
An unidentified soldier pauses for a cigarette.
Name, date, and location unknown.
Boston Globe > Big Picture A soldier's eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam March 25, 2013 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/03/a_soldiers_eye_rediscovered_pi.html
was drafted into the US Army in October of 1967.
He was 24, and had been in college in Michigan before running out of money and quitting school to work in a sheet metal factory.
The draft notice meant that he was to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam, designated a rifleman, the basic field position in the Army.
After 63 days in Vietnam, he was made a photographer, shooting photographs for the Army and US newspapers, with these instructions from the Colonel:
“You are not a combat photographer. This is a morale operation. If I see pictures of my guys in papers, doing their jobs with honor, then you can do what you like in Vietnam.”
He shot nearly 2,000 images between March 1968 and May 1969 before taking the negatives home.
And there they sat, out of sight, but not out of mind, for 45 years, until a chance meeting brought them out of dormancy and into a digital scanner.
At first, it was very difficult for Haughey to view the images and talk about them, especially not knowing the fates of many of the subjects of his photos.
When the digitization hit 1,700 negative scans, Haughey put them on a slideshow and viewed them all at once, and didn’t sleep for three days after.
He’s slowly getting better at dealing with the emotional impact of seeing the images for the first time in decades.
A team of volunteers has worked with Haughey to plan a 28-image show titled A Weather Walked In, which opens April 5th in the ADX art gallery in Portland, Oregon.
The difficulty of keeping notes in a war zone along with the passage of decades has faded the details behind many of the images, and the captions reflect this fact, with many shots of unknown people in forgotten locations at unspecified times.
It is hoped that publication of the pictures can yield more information.
More images from the collection will be released as the project progresses.
You can follow the progress on https://www.facebook.com/chieuhoiphoto and https://chieu-hoi.tumblr.com/about
Thanks to Chieu Hoi project volunteer Kris Regentin for preparing much of this introduction and the accompanying captions. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/03/a_soldiers_eye_rediscovered_pi.html
Francois Sully 1927-1971
Newsweek’s legendary Saigon bureau chief
The United States began its involvement in Vietnam in the mid-1950s, and almost immediately the government’s sketchy nomenclature underscored the ill-defined nature of the war that was never officially a war.
U.S. personnel were “advisers” to the South Vietnamese.
This fiction was maintained throughout the early ’60s, even as the number of U.S. troops escalated every year —11,300 in 1962, 16,300 in 1963, 23,300 in 1964.
U.S. combat units, composed entirely of American troops, did not officially appear until 1965, the year these photographs were shot —most of them by Newsweek’s legendary Saigon bureau chief Francois Sully and never seen until now.
By this time, there were 184,300 American troops stationed in Vietnam, and the U.S. government’s motives and policies were being increasingly criticized at home and abroad.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/03/18/
My War: wartime photographs by US soldiers in Vietnam
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/sep/20/
Vietnam: The Real War – in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/22/vietnam-
The Vietnam war remembered in pictures – review 15 March 2011
Tribute to Henri Huet and the photographers who risked all to capture images of Vietnam conflict opens at Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
Even during a war that produced some of the most iconic moments in photojournalism, Henri Huet’s images of Vietnam distinguish themselves as particularly artistic and moving.
Unlike most war photographers, Huet was a native of the land he was photographing, the son of a French engineer and Vietnamese mother.
Shooting for the Associated Press, he captured an image of a badly wounded American medic continuing to tend to other injured soldiers that landed on the cover of Life magazine and won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal.
Like Capa, the famed chronicler of battle, Huet died in the line of duty: he was shot down over Laos in 1971, at the age of 43.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2011/03/13/vietnam-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/mar/15/
Vietnam: The Real War
A Photographic History by the Associated Press
Authors: By the Associated Press, introduction by Pete Hamill Imprint: Abrams Books ISBN: 1-4197-0864-3 EAN: 9781419708640 http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Vietnam__The_Real_War-9781419708640.html
Vietnam war: classic AP photographs - in pictures
See powerful images of the conflict from the archives of the news agency.
They are featured in a new book, Vietnam: The Real War, published on 2 October, that marks the 50th anniversary of the start of hostilities.
It includes AP journalist Malcolm Browne's shocking photo of a Buddhist monk taking his own life in petrol-fuelled flames on a Saigon street in 1963, and Nick Ut's famous shot of a Vietnamese girl in the aftermath of a napalm attack. http://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/oct/02/vietnam-war-ap-photographs
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2013/oct/02/
Vietnam War Photos That Made a Difference
For the first time since the early days of the Republic, Americans were in a war without censorship.
Correspondents were subject to “ground rules” that protected military security, but, unlike in World War II and Korea, officials did not screen news copy or vet photographs. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/vietnam-war-photos-that-made-a-difference/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/
http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
Images of the Vietnam War That Defined an Era
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/
War in Vietnam NARA Documents Photographs
"Da Nang, Vietnam... A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing"
By an unknown photographer, August 3, 1965
1998 print.
Records of the U. S. Marine Corps. (127-W-A-185146)
https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/ Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives Eight Portfolios from Part I
https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
North Vietnamese photographers
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/
Teaching With Documents
The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/
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