Bảo Đại (right) as the "supreme advisor" to the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam led by president Ho Chi Minh (left), September 1945.
The 1954 Geneva Conference
Caricature in a periodical criticizing the division of Vietnam by foreign powers at Geneva
Anti-Bảo Đại revolutionists of the State of Vietnam at city hall, Saigon, May 1955.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles greet President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam in Washington, 8 May 1957
President Kennedy's news conference of 23 March 1961
President Kennedy meeting with Secretary of Defense McNamara , in June 1962
ARVN forces capture a Viet Cong
A U.S. B-66 Destroyer and four F-105 Thunderchiefs dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder
ARVN Forces and a US Advisor inspect a downed helicopter, Battle of Dong Xoai , June 1965
A Marine from 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines , moves a suspected Viet Cong during a search and clear operation held by the battalion 15 miles (24 km) west of Da Nang Air Base , 1965.
Peasants suspected of being Viet Cong under detention of U.S. Army, 1966
Viet Cong before departing to participate in the Tet Offensive around Saigon-Gia Dinh
ARVN forces assault a stronghold in the Mekong Delta
The ruins of a section of Saigon, in the Cholon neighborhood, following fierce fighting between ARVN forces and Viet Cong Main Force battalions
Propaganda leaflet urging the defection of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese to the side of the Republic of Vietnam
ARVN and US Special Forces, 1968
An alleged Viet Cong captured during an attack on an American outpost near the Cambodian border is interrogated.
PAVN artillery bombards ARVN positions near Kon Tum. 1972.
Soviet advisers inspecting the debris of a B-52 downed in the vicinity of Hanoi
American POWs recently released from North Vietnamese prison camps, 1973
Memorial commemorating the 1974 Buon Me Thuot campaign, depicting a Montagnard of the Central Highlands , a NVA soldier and a T-54 tank
The capture of Hue, March 1975
Victorious PAVN troops at the Presidential Palace, Saigon
The 1967 March on the Pentagon , an anti-war demonstration organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
Soviet air defense instructors and North Vietnamese crewmen in the spring of 1965 at an air defense training center in Vietnam
Victims of the My Lai massacre
"The Terror of War" by Nick Ut , which won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography , showing a nine-year-old girl running down a road after being severely burned by napalm.
Infant victim of 1967 Đắk Sơn massacre
Burial services for victims of the 1968 Huế massacre
A nurse treats a Vietnamese child, 1967
A wounded Black American soldier being evacuated during the My Lai Massacre
Guerrillas assemble shells and rockets delivered along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
B-52 wreckage in Huu Tiep Lake, Hanoi. Downed during Operation Linebacker II , its remains have been turned into a war monument .
Vietnamese refugees fleeing Vietnam, 1984
A young Marine private waits on the beach during the Marine landing, Da Nang , 3 August 1965
A marine gets his wounds treated during operations in Huế City, in 1968
US helicopter spraying chemical defoliants in the Mekong Delta , South Vietnam, 1969
Handicapped children in Vietnam, most of them victims of Agent Orange , 2004
Stone plaque with photo of the Thương tiếc ("Mourning Soldier") statue, originally, installed at the Republic of Vietnam National Military Cemetery . The original statue was demolished after April 1975.
