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1967: Operation "Oregon," a search and destroy mission conducted by infantry platoon of Troop B. Here an infantryman is lowered into a tunnel by members of the reconnaissance platoon.National Archives
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1965: In the jungle area of Ben Cat, U.S. paratroopers carry their weapons above water in the rain while they search for Viet Cong troops.
Photographer Henri Huet would later die in 1971, when the helicopter that he and three other photojournalists were in was shot down. Henri Huet/Daily Mail
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1968: Armed South Vietnamese marines slog through jungle mud, Mekong Delta, South Vietnam.Wilbur E Garrett/ Flickr/manhhai
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1954: French paratroopers descend on Dien Bien Phu to provide reinforcements. Daniel Camus and Jean Péraud/Daily Mail
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1965: U.S. Army helicopters lay down cover fire over South Vietnamese troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border.Horst Faas/Daily Mail
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Combat at the Con Thien Base in 1968.Flickr/manhhai
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1966: U.S. Marines south of the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) after a night of fighting North Vietnamese troops. The supply chopper seen in the picture was shot down.Henri Huet/Daily Mail
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1965: American soldiers arriving at Red Beach at Da Nang.Peter Gregg/Daily Mail
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Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic South Vietnamese government. This was the first in a series of self-immolation by the monks.Malcolm Wilde Browne/Daily Mail
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A South Vietnamese woman grieves the loss of her deceased husband, who was discovered in a mass grave.Daily Mail
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A wounded paratrooper in agonizing pain awaits medical evacuation at the base camp of Shau Valley.Daily Mail
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"Home is where you dig" was the sign over a fighting bunker, 1968.National Archives
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1971: Near Camp Eagle, an aerial view of a peace symbol probably made by U.S. troops with a bulldozer. Daily Mail
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1966: The body of a U.S. soldier killed in battle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter.Henri Huet/Daily Mail
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1968: Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St. Paul, Minnesota, with a 45 pound 90mm recoiless rifle. NATIONAL ARCHIVES/AFP/Getty Images
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Picture released in 1972 by a North Vietnamese official agency with the caption: "Young women carry the ammunition to the front in Quang Tri province, south Vietnam." VAN BANG/AFP/Getty Images
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1972: Lightly-wounded civilians and troops attempt to push their way aboard a South Vietnamese evacuation helicopter. AP photo/Flickr/judgerock
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Marines of Company H walk through a punji-staked gully in 1966.National Archives
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1963: A Vietnamese mother pulls her two children away from their burning home which was set fire to by South Vietnamese soldiers, near Tay Ninh.Horst Faas/Daily Mail
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American soldiers taking cover. Flickr/Gerald Simmons
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1967: Soldier resting close on his position at the Hill 875 near Dakto, a few days after the North Vietnamese Army made a massive assault.CORR/AFP/Getty Images
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Soldiers taking rest close to a small Christmas tree on their position at the Hill 875 near Dakto, few days after the North Vietnamese Army made a massive assault. CORR/AFP/Getty Images
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1965: American wounded soldiers of the special forces are evacuated by helicopter from a camp in Plei Me, south Vietnam. AFP/Getty Images
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1967: Close up of a U.S. soldier in Vietnam.Flickr/manhhai
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1971: American helicopters land at Khe Sanh base on the Laos border after it was "reactivated" following a Vitecong offensive. AFP/Getty Images
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1968: Marines load captured material into canoes in a jungle-covered delta on the Cai Lon River.Wilbur E. Garrett/ Flickr/manhhai
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Picture released in 1972 of Vietnamese people carrying victims of the American "Christmas bombings" on Hanoi and North Vietnam.AFP/Getty Images
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1967: CPL. Jesse D. Hittson of Levelland, Texas, reaches for his mail at the U.S. Marine Con Thien outpost two miles south of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam. AP Photo/Kim Ki Sam/Flickr/manhhai
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1968: Marines riding atop an M-48 tank, covering their ears.National Archives
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1968: During "Operation Yellowstone" at the end of a hard day, a few members of Company A gather around a guitar and play a few songs.National Archives
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1975: Inhabitants look at a US helicopter which was destroyed the day before the takeover of Saigon -- during the refugee evacuation. Pham Khac/AFP/Getty Images
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1968: D.R. Howe treats the wounds of Private First Class D.A. Crum, "H" Company, 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, During Operation Hue City in Vietnam. NATIONAL ARCHIVES/AFP/Getty Images
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1966: North Vietnamese forces ready to fire during a military exercise in Bach Dang, near Hanoi. STF/AFP/Getty Images
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1969: Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a swampy area.National Archives
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1968: A wounded South Vietnamese soldier is helped by his comrades in the destroyed cemetery of Da Nang, during an attack. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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