Figures
1.1US Army officer William Westmoreland with Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Chief of the Vietnam Air Force in Đà Nẵng (July 18, 1964)
2.1An F-105 “Thunderchief” with a full load of sixteen 750 lb bombs; it was the US Air Force’s primary aircraft for bombing North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder
2.2The B-52 “Stratofortress” could carry up to 30 tons of conventional bombs on missions in Southeast Asia
2.3General John D. Lavelle was accused of authorizing illegal bombing raids against North Vietnamese targets and was forced into retirement in 1972
3.1US troops stationed at the Camp Eagle Army Base, southeast of Huế, enjoy a Christmas show (December 24, 1971)
4.1Nurses tend to wounded American soldiers as they prepare to depart for the United States from Tân Sơn Nhất Air Base (January 11, 1967)
5.1Vietnamese women and children huddle together as US soldiers enter their village (May 12, 1967)
6.1A shopper carrying merchandise purchased on the black market, which traded in US Army–issue items as well as general American goods (August 15, 1970)
8.1National Liberation Front soldiers watching a film in Củ Chi, South Vietnam (1972)
9.1Soldiers of the People’s Army of Vietnam during training exercises (1968)
10.1US brigadier general F. J. Karch is greeted by Vietnamese women in Đà Nẵng (March 8, 1965)
11.1Members of the Rhadé hill tribe with an American military instructor (1962)
12.1US secretary of defense Robert S. McNamara points to a map of Vietnam during a press conference (April 26, 1965)
13.1Walt Whitman Rostow shows White House press secretary George Christian, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and General Robert Ginsburgh a model of the Khe Sanh area (February 1968)
14.1President John F. Kennedy speaks with advisors, General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (August 23, 1963)
15.1President Lyndon B. Johnson inspects a marine at Cam Ranh Bay Air Force Base (October 26, 1966)
16.1A Buddhist monk speaks to the crowd gathered at Saigon’s Xá Lợi Pagoda during memorial services for those who self-immolated to protest policies of President Ngô Đình Diệm (August 18, 1963)
17.1A propagandist reads the latest news to workers at a Hanoi factory using a makeshift megaphone (February 13, 1968)
18.1More than 2,000 people gather at an antiwar demonstration in New York City (December 6, 1967)
19.1Black Americans march in New York City, calling for an end to the Vietnam War (1967)
20.1Pro–Vietnam War demonstrators at a rally in Central Park in New York City (April 27, 1968)
21.1CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite covers the aftermath of the Tet Offensive for the special Report from Vietnam (1968)
22.1People doing their Tết (Lunar New Year) shopping in Saigon’s central market (January 20, 1970)
23.1Women factory workers in Hanoi go about their jobs with their rifles nearby (August 14, 1965)
24.1A crowd gathers in Havana, Cuba, to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. A banner showing Che Guevara urges the people of the Third World to create “two, three, many Vietnams” (July 26, 1967)
25.1Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Hồ Chí Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and Chairman of the Vietnam Workers’ Party, and Soong Ching-Ling, Vice Chairwoman of China, dining together in Beijing (October 4, 1959)
26.1French president Charles de Gaulle at a press conference on Vietnam (October 28, 1966)
28.1An employee of Japan’s Hazama Corporation at a site in South Vietnam (March 1962)
29.2A Vietnamese woman sells coconuts and waits for business outside an internet center in Hồ Chí Minh City (November 19, 2000)
30.1The National Liberation Front flag hangs during a student demonstration at the Sorbonne in Paris, alongside a poster for the French Revolutionary Communist Youth Party (May 14, 1968)
30.2Buddhist monks and nuns demonstrating for peace and independence in front of the government palace in Saigon (August 1968)
