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Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force colonel and a co-author of a prominent Vietnam War photojournalism book, The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, says of Burst of Joy, "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing." [5]
During the First Battle of Quảng Trị in the Easter Offensive of 1972, People's Army of Vietnam forces fired indiscriminately on the intermingled South Vietnamese military and refugee columns fleeing south from Quảng Trị killing approximately 2,000 civilians in the Shelling of Highway 1. [5]
Pages in category "Vietnam War photographs" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Burst of Joy; M.
Army Pfc. Raymond Platero of the Cañoncito Reservation was on a military craft heading to shore when it hit a booby trap on Jan. 26, 1970. Platero, 25, and three soldiers from Illinois, Maryland ...
Although other military departments and press organizations sent their own photographers into the war zones, DASPO was considered "the Army's elite photographic unit." [ 10 ] The Vietnam teams usually consisted of a commanding officer, a non-commissioned officer, and 10-18 enlisted sound specialists, motion picture cameramen, and still ...
During the Vietnam Era, the U.S. Army Chief of Military History asked Marian McNaughton, then Curator for the Army Art Collection, to develop a plan for a Vietnam soldier art program. The result was the creation in 1966 of the U. S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program under the direction of the Office of Chief of Military History and McNaughton's ...
The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay. In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam, he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of a trench and step into enemy machine-gun fire.”
US Army: 73rd Aviation Company: South Vietnam, Vĩnh Bình Province: Pilot of OV-1C #61-2687 shot down over the U Minh Forest [71] Presumptive finding of death [3] June 9: Demmon, David S: Sergeant: US Army: 73rd Aviation Company: South Vietnam, Vĩnh Bình Province: Electronic sensor operator on OV-1C #61-2687 shot down over the U Minh Forest [72]