TON THANG 42 PHASE V: ARVN soldiers loading Chinese-made recoilless rifles aboard a UH-34 Choctaw as troops advanced down Route 7 towards Chup Rubber plantation on 25 May 1970
TOAN THANG 42 PHASE V: ARVN troops in Tonle Bet, across the Mekong from beleaguered Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, on 24 May 1970. ARVN was tasked with relieving the pressure from communist forces
Soldiers confront a demonstration in Saigon by university students led by a woman in a ao dai holding a SVN flag on 24 May 1966. They were demonstrating for national elections and removal of troops from Da Nang where they put down a rebellion by Buddhists and rebel troops
With 3000- foot-high Nui Ba Den providing the back drop, another timber joist is put in place by men of D/1st Engineer battalion 1st Infantry Division for a bridge outside Tay Ninh in May 1966
M56 Scorpion anti-tank SPG near Bien Hoa, 19 May 1965. Deployed with D/16 Armor, 173rd Airborne in Vietnam for first year of the war. Thanks to Jota Jota and Vincent Raul for ID and information ; video 1:05
25 May 1961: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”
Crews of slicks stand by at Quan Loi airstrip east of An Loc, waiting for men from 3rd ARVN Airborne Brigade and 1st Air Cav Division to transport into Cambodia May 1970
The light at the end of the tunnel”: LtGen Henri Navarre stepped from a Constellation airliner into the heat of Saigon at Tan Son Nhut on 19 May 1953 to take command of French Far East Expeditionary Corps (CEFEO)
Former President of the Republic of Vietnam, Dương Văn Minh, and his wife cast their votes in the general election for the National Assembly of a unified Vietnam on April 25, 1976.
Photo: Roger Pic