U.S. Air Force (USAF) Combat Control Team at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A Vietnamese soldier talks to a Vietnamese officer. The officer talks to a U.S. soldier. The soldiers stand in a group in the background. The soldiers wearing only trousers stand and talk. A soldier smokes and another drinks beer. Buildings in the background. Food kept on a table. The soldiers serve themselves with food. A U.S. officer eats a beef sandwich. Another drinks beer. The officer eats a sandwich. A soldier holding a beer and a bread slice.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) Combat Control Team at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The combat party soldiers enjoy at the base. The soldiers toss up a soldier and put him in a water tank. Buildings in the background. The soldier comes out of the tank. The soldier drenched in water walks forward. U.S. soldiers stand around a table. Food kept on the table. Another soldier with a beer can in the foreground. The drenched soldier smiles and talk to another soldier. The soldier lifts up another soldier and puts him in the water tank. The soldier comes out of the tank. Two drenched soldiers walk up towards the soldiers around the table. The soldiers toss each other into the water tank. The soldiers stand and laugh.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) Combat Control Team at Katum Camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. soldiers get off an aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Empty containers in the foreground. The aircraft in flight. A sign reads 'Katum Camp'. The soldiers of the combat control team walk on a dirt road at the camp. Buildings at the camp. A view of the camp area and an unpaved road which goes towards the camp. The soldiers walk on the unpaved road. The soldiers carrying guns move and sit on the ground. A soldier points out something.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) Combat Control Team in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A soldier holds a pole in place. Another one hammers it to drive it into the ground. A soldier ties an orange banner on poles. The soldiers move towards other area for putting up banners. They spread the banners on the ground. A soldier stands holding guns and speaks over a radio. A soldier ties an orange banner. The soldiers stand near the banner. A close view of the banner. The soldiers stand in the background.
U.S. Navy personnel aboard river patrol boats [PBRs] during a patrol in the Bassac River, Vietnam. A PBR underway. A soldier operates a Mk 18 Mod 0 grenade launcher. Heavy foliage alongside the riverbank. Chief Petty Officer Briggs operates the boat. Helicopters in flight. Lieutenant Lemon and Lieutenant Riedel man their M-60 machine guns. Explosions occur in water. They load ammunition belts in the guns. Several boats underway. Officers man their machine guns. American flags on the deck of the boats.
Aerial view of Dien Bien Phu showing craters from shelling after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the First Indochina War preceding Vietnam War. French Aéronavale (naval air) Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer Maritime patrol bomber in flight. A French pilot radioing from the cockpit. Paratroopers with parachutes drop from bombers. A bomber airdrops supplies. A French camp in Vietnam. French cannons and artillery shooting enemy positions. French troops evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield. Vietnamese civilians scavenging in Hanoi after the end of the First Indochina War. An elderly woman sat in front of a doorway. A child looks up. French troops leave Vietnam. Communist North Vietnam flag on flagpole in Hanoi. North Vietnamese troops marching. World leaders convene at the 1954 Geneva Conference to decide the fate of Vietnam. Deputy Defence Minister Ta Quang Buu of Vietnam signs the Indochina Conference Armistice Agreement in Geneva on 21 July 1954. Delegates shake hands after the Geneva Conference. Refugees carry their belongings and children as they flee North Vietnam for South Vietnam. Vietnamese refugees crowd in United States Navy boats heading to South Vietnam. Refugee children help United States sailors swab the deck of a ship. The refugees disembark from ship upon arrival in Saigon, South Vietnam. 1954 map of Indochina countries such as Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and North and South Vietnam. Mountains in the border between North and South Vietnam. President of North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh meets and plays with children. A happy girl clapping. Children surround Ho Chi Minh. A child plays with Ho Chi Minh’s beard and Ho Chi Minh smiles. Farmers build new huts in South Vietnam. South Vietnamese men and women but ballots into ballot box during voting. A woman wearing sunglasses and Ao Dai dress smiles after voting in the election. Packs and sacks of rice from the United States government in South Vietnam. Civilians distribute sacks of rice. Farmers receive new equipment and plows from the United States. Farmers harvest rice in rice paddies. Vietnamese men rowing in small boats and traditional Junk. Delegates arrive in Manila, Philippines for the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty September 8, 1954. The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty is signed. Delegates clapping after the treaty is signed. Vietnamese civilians gather concrete blocks and build houses. A car with bullet holes in window. A dead South Vietnamese politician in car murdered by North Vietnamese agents. North Vietnamese guerrillas hike in the jungle. Men running in front of a burning house in a village under siege by North Vietnam. Burned houses, rubble, and dead civilians in village after a North Vietnamese guerrilla attack. A portrait of Ho Chi Minh above a North Vietnam flag.