Source: Keystone / Hulton Archive via Getty Images
A frightened civilian
A Vietnamese civilian with a gun pointed at the side of her head.
Source: Hulton Archive / Archive Photos via Getty Images
An American POW
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James L. Hughes, forced to eject from his F-105 over North Vietnam on May 5, 1967, is paraded barefoot and with a bandaged face through the street by two North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War.
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Source: Public Domain / The U.S. National Archives / Picryl
Training for action
Ten Marine Corps test jumpers in “stick” formation are towed by a helicopter during tests of the special patrol insertion/extraction system at the Naval Aerospace Recovery Facility in El Centro, Calif.
Source: Public Domain / Virtual Vietnam archive / Wikimedia Commons
North Vietnamese Army casualties
The bodies of three North Vietnamese soldiers lie in the street in Tan Son Nhut following a battle with U.S. and South Vietnamese troops.
Source: Hulton Archive / Archive Photos via Getty Images
The Air Force attacks Hanoi
A plume of black smoke rises from a petroleum storage facility in Hanoi following a bombing run by U.S. planes on June 29, 1966.
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