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    Bilder vom Vietnamkrieg

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    1. Iron_Cavalry on

      >“Move out,” Sweet ordered.

      >“Let’s go!” came the cry.

      >Four hundred men rose and began running forward. There were too many for the enemy to shoot at once, but many were cut down as soon as they stood. There was no choice but to keep going. Some stopped to pull others up and drag or carry them. Gonzales fired his rifle in three-round bursts as he ran. Dentinger ran and prayed. DiLeo, with that heavy mortar plate on his back, felt as if he were running in slow motion. Paralyzing fear had eroded to grim acceptance. This was the deal. He ran. His immediate hope was that he would be killed cleanly and quickly. 

      >When he and five others made the tree line they saw three big foxholes. In the first they discovered three NVA soldiers, who tried to surrender. They were shot dead. Two more leaped from the next hole and ran. They, too, were cut down.

      >Eight enemy soldiers were dead and four others were prisoners. Nine of Sweet’s men were dead, forty-eight wounded. Gonzales jumped into an empty foxhole and found an arm and part of a brain. He threw them out and settled in deep. 

      * From Mark Bowden, Hue 1968, on one of the clashes in the brutal month-long battle for the city.

    2. Iron_Cavalry on

      >*Insects in the Central Highlands are truly terrifying, unlike anything we had encountered in the North during the resistance against the French. At the recent Military Medical Conference, Treatment Team 3 reported a type of insect that looks like a dung beetle, with a completely black body and hard wings, but only as small as a mung bean.* ***They appear at night in millions, like a cloud, flooding into the injured soldiers‘ bunkers, swarming into the wounds***. ***The only way to defend against them is to quickly move the wounded soldiers to another bunker that has not yet been attacked by them and to light large torches to burn them.***

      * An excerpt from Dr Lê Cao Đài’s memoir about a special type of bug that ravaged his VC troops. 

      For however much the Americans suffered in the jungle, the Viet Cong had it worse. The Viet Cong lacked helicopter transport and mechanized logistics, and were almost always undersupplied in food and medicine. They were more at the mercy of the elements and many of their wounded died before treatment. 

    4. MajesticCentaur on

      Damn, what a great selection of pictures. The one with the AC-47 is really cool.

    5. kanonnn on

      I’m a photographer. I was lucky to learn in a dark room in high school photography class. Lots of kids were shooting their friends skateboarding or taking shots of nature and I was infatuated with war photography and specifically from Vietnam. I was introduced by David Hume Kennerly, a generational human and artist. There’s a part of me that will never feel like I’ve taken an image of importance due to the existence of images like these.

      Edit: If you’re fascinated by wartime photography, I highly recommend a movie called “The Bang Bang Club.” It’s an excellent film, and a true story, at the very least, read up on it.

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