TAY NINH VNM — Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in March 1965 during the Vietnam War.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Horst Faas / Associated Press

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South Vietnamese government troops from the 2nd Battalion of the 36th Infantry sleep in a U.S. Navy troop carrier on their way back to the Provincial capital of Ca Mau in Aug. 1962 during the Vietnam War. The soldiers were on a four-day and night operation against the Viet Cong Communists in the swamplands of the southern tip of the country.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: HORST FAAS / Assoicated Press

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VNM — Vietnamese mother and three children wade from shelter in swamp after government troops fired into their hamlet 140 miles southeast of Saigon, August 30, 1966. The troops assaulted the hamlet which is in a Viet Cong-dominated area.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dang Van Phuoc / Associated Press

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U.S. paratrooper Sgt. James R. Cone of Clarksville, Tenn., holds a puppy that nipped him as he groped about in a cave entrance on a river bank in Lam Dong Province, July 24, 1966. Troops of the 173rd Airborne Brigade were searching for Viet Cong guerrillas dug into the caves, but the men had fled, leaving only women and children, and one dog. At left is Pfc. George R. Rosen of Whitehall, Mont.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Henri Huet / Associated Press

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Ferrying South Vietnamese rangers, helicopters of the U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade swoop in on a landing zone on the fringe of a pineapple plantation in the Mekong Delta, 16 miles southwest of Saigon, in Aug. 1967. Both U.S. and South Vietnamese troops are participating in Operation Shelby, a combined sweep of the area during the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Dang Van Phuoc) Mandatory credit: Dang Van Phuoc/Associated Press

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dang Van Phuoc / Associated Press

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My Son VNM — Under sniper fire, a Vietnamese woman carries a child to safety as U.S. Marines storm the village of My Son, near Da Nang, searching for Viet Cong insurgents in April 1964. The men of the village had largely disappeared, and the remaining villagers revealed little when questioned by the Marines.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Eddie Adams / Associated Press

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Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25, 1965. The paratroopers had been searching the area for 12 days with no enemy contact.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Henri Huet / Assoicated Press

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TRANG BANG VIETNAM — Phan Thi Kim Phuc, center, with her clothes torn off, flees with other South Vietnamese children after a misdirected aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places on June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane mistakenly dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. Kim Phuc became a symbol of the civilian suffering of the Vietnam War.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: NICK UT / Associated Press

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Nowhere to go and nothing to do, South Vietnamese refugees from Hue and the northern provinces pause on the dock waiting for the government to relocate them to the central coastal area at Da Nang in Vietnam, March 28, 1975.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Dang Van Phuoc / Associated Press

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