Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Vietnam war: classic AP photographs - in pictures

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.

The images contained:

South Vietnamese soldiers sleeping in a truck in the United States after four days struggling

A monk Thich Quang Duc burned suicidal in the street to potestra by the persecution of his people by the government of Vietnam. The photo caused global repudiation

In another picture contrasts the beauty of nature and the sun through the forest light staining rest of soldiers in a land that is not theirs after waiting for an ambush not relizó. One hour later, the troops would move out for another long, hot day hunting the guerrillas in the jungles forty miles southeast of Saigon

A parachutist experiencing their pain beside hamburger boxes waiting rescue

A photograph of a dead soldier raised to a helicopter that looks like a giant cross special in the air as evoking the sacred blood and the mortal. This in South Vietnam,.The zone, encompassing the city of Tay Ninh and the surrounding area north of Saigon, was the site of the Viet Cong's headquarters in South Vietnam.

A woman mourns her husband found wrapped in garbage bags, this reminded me as delivered stillborn children in the morgue now in a state of war NO.The man's body was found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue on 11 April 1969. The victims were believed killed during the insurgent occupation of Hue as part of the Tet offensive

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