Carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle, a Marine waits at a landing strip for a flight out of Khe Sanh, February 25th, 1968

It was the era of Rock & Roll and more people turned up for James Brown at the yearly USO extravaganza, than for Bob Hope. The AFRVN radio networking was grooving from the Delta to the DMZ. Accompanying the music of the era was a new mood towards the war and a lack of faith in the objectives became more common among the servicemen than ever before.

Luscious, mini-skirted screen-queen Raquel Welch gets help from four enthusiastic GIs as she performs on the Bob Hope Show at Da Nang military base December 18th, 1967. Beautiful Raquel was one of the performers accompanying the popular comedian on his annual overseas Christmas tour that year.

Just look at the focus of attention for the soldier to the right, he can barely keep his hands away. At least he had sweet dreams that night in Vietnam.

If symbols mirrored one's convictions, this infantry division trooper's might be termed a contradiction (Most soldiers do want peace). He wears a peace symbol juxtaposed with a bandoleer, in addition to some religious medals. He's attached to a mechanized unit posted just below the DMZ, January 29th, 1968..

Marine Helping Wounded Soldier

A critically wounded marine is aided by other marines from "B" Company, September 16th, 1966, two miles South of the de-militarized zone.

Soldiers Preparing to be evacuated by helicopter

Smoke flare marks landing spot for evacuation helicopter coming in to take out U.S. 1st Cavalrymen wounded in the battle for control of the vital A Shau Valley.

A Vietcong suspect captured by the US 25th Division north of Parrots Beak, squats blindfolded behind a barbed wire enclosure, 1969.

Parrots Beak is a region of mainly dense jungle in southeast Cambodia, but stretching into South Vietnam, 65 Kilometers (forty miles) west of Saigon. The Vietcong and NVA frequently used this region to set up their base camps and staging areas. When President Johnson refused permission to attack these areas, the US Army sent out clandestine missions anyway. In 1969, Nixon ordered massive bombings of the area, but failed to stop the communists from using it is a staging area.

Vietnamese children flee from their homes in Trang Bang June 8th, 1972. A South Vietnamese air force plane has accidentally dropped a napalm bomb on the village 26 miles outside of Saigon. This is without a doubt one of the most remembered images of the war. Twenty-five years later, the young girl running naked from her village, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, was named a UNESCO goodwill ambassador.

Soldier with Vietcong Family

A soldier on an offensive north of Bong Son, kneels beside the bedraggled mother and children of a suspected Vietcong family, huddled at the edge of a field. Vietnam, 1966.

Helmets, rifles and jungle boots tell a grim tale of the action fought by the 1st Brigade, 101st airborne paratroopers in Operation Wheeler near Chu Lai. This battlefield memorial honors the soldiers killed during the offensive between September 11th and November 25th, 1967.

Tutte foto del Viet-Nam.
Per curiosità la bambina che scappa tutta nuda è diventata un'insegnante e vive negli USA.