Photographs of the Vietnam War
Combat Action
- Marine Corp flame thrower tank in action
- A soldier uses his flamethrower to clear an area
- A machine gunner and a rifleman firing at the enemy
- A U.S. Air Force HH-3 helicopter crewman firing a mini-gun
- Two soldiers wading through a muddy hole while on a search mission
- Marines take to water
- Soldiers clearing housing during patrol
- Napalm bombs exploding on Viet Cong structures
- A Viet Cong base camp being destroyed
- Aerial View of bombing Viet Cong structures along a canal
- An infantry patrol moves up to assault the last Viet Cong position
- Soldiers moving along a trail during an assault operation
- Marines riding on a M-48 tank
Entertaining the Troops
- Bob Hope on his first Christmas show
- John Wayne signs Private First Class Fonsell Wofford's helmet
- Roy and Dale Rogers entertain crew members
- Actress Carol Baker throwing her arms open to the servicemen
- Thousands of service personnel listen to Miss Ann Margret sing
Soldiers
- A Navy gunner mans his 50 caliber machine gun on a utility boat (close-up)
- Soldier taking a break (close-up)
- A soldier with his gas mask on (close-up)
- Young Marine private (close-up)
- A soldier paddling a three-man assault boat down the canal
- Members of the 101st Airborn Division aboard a USAF C-130
- Colonel Robin Olds Being Carried Away From His F-4 Phantom II After His 100th Combat Mission
- Personnel wait at the Bien Hoa Air Terminal for a National Airlines flight home
- President Lyndon B. Johnson Shaking Hands in a Crowd of Troops
Life in the Jungle
- Staff Sergeant Howard Stevens reading his mail
- Soldiers playing guitar after a hard day
- Three soldiers sitting in a fighting bunker eating and writing
Wounded
- Marines carrying one of their fellow Marines to the H-34 under heavy firefight
- A nurse tending a patient just out of surgery on a hospital ship
- A nurse checking the medical chart of an injured Marine aboard a hospital ship
- Two nurses talking with a wounded American soldier
- Medical evacuation patients on the deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli
- 1st Lt. Elaine H. Niggemann changes a surgical dressing
- President Lyndon B. Johnson decorating a soldier in a hospital
P.O.W.s
- U.S.A.F. Captain Wilmer N. Grubb being given first aid while being guarded by his captors
- Wives of Marines waiting for repatriated P.O.W.s to arrive
Women in the Military
- The first five enlisted women in the Air Force arriving
- Staff Sergeant Ermalinda Salazar, a woman Marine who has been nominated for the 1970 Unsung Heroine Award, holds two youngsters
- A nurse tending a patient just out of surgery in the intensive care ward of a hospital ship
- Two nurses talking with a wounded American soldier wounded
- 1st Lt. Elaine H. Niggemann changes a surgical dressing
- A nurse checking the medical chart of an injured Marine aboard a hospital ship
- President Lyndon B. Johnson talking to nurses and children in Vietnam
Media
- Walter Cronkite interviewing Professor Mai of the University of Hue
- Walter Cronkite and a CBS Camera crew use a jeep for a dolly
Views From the Air
- Napalm bombs exploding on Viet Cong structures
- Bombing Viet Cong structures along a canal
- View from inside a helicopter
Helicopters
- Helicopters waiting in a row
- Vietnam War refugees riding an Air Force helicopter
- A huge Sky Crane CH-54A helicopter
- Air Force F-105 Thunderchief refueling in the air
- A U.S. Army soldier directing a UH-1 helicopter
- UH-1D helicopters airlifting soldiers
- Medevac helicopter taking off
- A U.S. Air Force HH-3 helicopter crewman firing a mini-gun
- View from inside a helicopter
Planes
- A U.S. Air Force B-52 aircraft coming in for a landing
- U.S. Air Force C-47 releasing psychological warfare leaflets
- C-123 Ranch Hand aircraft spraying defoliant
- U.S. Aircraft dropping Loran Bombs
- Two F-4b phantoms of VMFA-542 in the air
Boats and Ships
- The nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise
- USS Montague lowering a ladder over the side
- A soldier paddling a three-man assault boat
Viet Cong Prisoners
- Soldiers surrounding a captured Viet Cong
- A Viet Cong prisoner captured during Operation Double Eagle
- A Viet Cong suspect, captured during an attack, being interrogated
- MP walking through the Americal Division POW collection point
Life for the Vietnamese During War
- Vietnamese woman weeps over the body of her husband
- Small girl receives medical aid during fierce fighting in Nam-o Village
- Scene of Viet Cong terrorist bombing in Saigon
- The destruction after terrorists exploded a bomb underneath the Brinks Hotel
- Vietnam War refugees riding an Air Force helicopter
- USS Montague lowering a ladder over the side to take refugees aboard
- A young soldier from the Popular Forces stands gate guard duty
- U.S. Air Force Captain vaccinating a Vietnamese woman
Vietnam Veterans' Memorials
Propaganda
- U.S. Air Force C-47 releasing psychological warfare leaflets
- Propaganda Poster Used on the Cover of a Pamphlet About Vietnam
Protestors
- Vietnam War protestors with sign, "Saigon Puppet"
- Vietnam War protestors in Wichita, Kansas
- Vietnam War protestors walking with signs
- A peaceful demonstrator holding up a sign
President Lyndon Johnson
- LBJ listening to a tape
- LBJ decorating a soldier in a hospital
- LBJ decorating a soldier in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
- LBJ decorating a soldier at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
- LBJ and General William Westmoreland decorating a soldier in Cam Ranh Bay
- LBJ shaking hands with U.S. troops in Vietnam
- LBJ shaking hands with U.S. troops in Vietnam
- LBJ shaking hands in a crowd of troops
- LBJ shaking hands in a crowd of troops
- LBJ addressing a large crowd at Cam Ranh Bay
- LBJ talking to nurses and children in Vietnam
- LBJ talking with General William Westmoreland outside of Air Force One
- LBJ and General William Westmoreland traveling in a jeep
- LBJ and General William Westmoreland talking closely
- LBJ, Westmoreland, Nguyen Van Thieu, and Nguyen Cao Ky standing together
- General Creighton W. Abrams discussing the military situation in Vietnam with LBJ
- LBJ, Robert McNamara, Nguyen Cao Ky, and Nguyen Van Thieu sitting around a coffee table
- LBJ and President Nguyen Van Thieu talking
- LBJ and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky intimately talking
President Gerald Ford
- President Gerald Ford (close-up)
- President Gerald Ford on the phone
- Ford talking to a woman refugee and holding a Vietnamese baby on a U.S.A.F. bus
- Ford presiding over a meeting of the National Security Council
- Ford meeting in the Oval Office with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller
- President Ford sitting in the Oval Office with Brent Scowcroft, Graham Martin, Frederick Weyand, and Henry Kissinger
President Richard Nixon
- President Nixon speaks to assembled White House staff
- Nixon during a press conference on Vietnam and Cambodia
- Nixon shaking hands with armed forces in Vietnam
- Nixon, Kissinger, and Haig meeting at Camp David
General William C. Westmoreland
- General William C. Westmoreland (close-up)
- U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam chatting with Westmoreland
- Robert S. McNamara and Westmoreland talking With General Tee
- Westmoreland talking with President Johnson outside of Air Force One
- Westmoreland and President Johnson decorating a soldier
- Westmoreland President Johnson traveling in a jeep
- Westmoreland, LBJ, Nguyen Van Thieu, Nguyen Cao Ky
- Westmoreland and President Johnson talking closely
President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam
- President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam standing in front of a world map
- Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky
- President Nguyen Van Thieu and President Johnson talking
Official Meetings
- Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger using the telephone (close-up)
- Manila Conference: U.S. & Vietnamese in private meeting
- The signing of the Vietman Peace Agreement
- Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller listens intently to the discussion of the evacuation of Saigon
- Nelson Rockefeller, Brent Scowcroft, and William Colby standing in the Cabinet Room
- SEATO nation leaders standing together in a group portrait during the Manila Conference
- Colonel Robert White, Colonel Robin Olds, Colonel James and Colonel John Burns attending a conference
- President of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem is welcomed at Washington National Airport
Photograph courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
