Just watched a good doco on the photographers of the Vietnam war. Amazing really seeing some of the female soldiers who volunteered to defend their country with their lives. Some interesting pics from that period:
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Hao Lok, North Vietnam: Mai Thi La (left) and Nguyen Thi Thy man an anti-aircraft gun in this village in Thanh Hoa Province, North Vietnam. The Communists claim the girls are members of a women's battery which, according to the Reds, has shot down three American airmen.
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Nguyễn Thị Cần
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1973 in Đường Trường Sơn
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NLF soldiers. the young girl in the centre was to go on and receive an important war medal.
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National Liberation Front female soldier in final offencive (1975)
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Phạm Văn Đồng, PM of Democratic Republic Vietnam
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Shooting a heavy 12.7mm machine gun.
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Nguyen Thi Minh Hien became a heroine of the Vietnam Peoples Armed Forces at 20 years. She participated 17 battles and killed 174 names.
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In the Soviet Union. The Woman in the center is Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in the Space, with two Vietnamese officers studying military courses from a USSR delegation 1968.
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Ladies operating AAA Guns. According to the American the AAA gunned down more than 4,500 aircraft in Vietnam
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A Japanese delegation led by Professor Makoto Kandatsu, President of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association visited an antiaircraft battery in Haiphong, October 19, 1971
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With destroyed Enemy tank in 1970
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Saigon 1975
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Many became heroines. A range of stamps later released to honour their resistance.
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Capt. William Robinson
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It would be 7 years before he was released, and would be the longest ever PoW in US military history.
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Khong co' chi
She is a Heroine from The Vietnam People's Army (Anh hùng lực lượng vũ trang nhân dân) in 1969 La Thị Tám
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VIET NAM - JUNE 10: Picture released 10 June 1972 by North Vietnamese official agency with a caption saying: 'Young women carry the ammunition to the front in Quang Tri province, south Vietnam.' 11 August 1972, the last American ground combat unit in South Vietnam, the 3rd Battalion of the 21st Infantry, packed up its weapons and left the base at Da Nang, South Vietnam, where US Marines landed in March 1965 in 'purely defensive role'
PAVN officer in 1961
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