Quang Duc’s self-immolation

Quang Duc’s self-immolation on June 11, 1963 was captured on film by Malcolm Browne, alerting the world to the growing anti-Diem nationalism in Saigon.

35 years after the fall: The Vietnam War in picture

U.S. military action in Vietnam was a piece in the global Cold War struggle. After Vietnamese nationalists overthrew French colonialists in the 1950s, the country was divided between the Communist north and the anti-Communist south. In the ensuing conflict, Washington backed the south, fearing that a Communist takeover could cascade through Southeast Asia. The first U.S. forces engaged in the conflict in secret, by way of Cambodia. As the civil war intensified in the 1960s, the United States expanded its operations in the region, deploying some 3 million American troops over time, but U.S. forces struggled to gain ground as they fought in difficult and unfamiliar terrain against extremely capable in guerrilla fighters. As the war dragged on and casualties mounted, opposition to the war exploded. By the time American forces withdrew in 1975 and Saigon fell to Ho Chi Minh's Communists, 58,000 Americans and between 1 million and 2 million Vietnamese had died. It was the longest war in U.S. history and the most unpopular American war of the 20th century. In this 1965 photo, paratroopers cross a river in the rain near Ben Cat, in the south.

The South Vietnamese regime backed by the United States in the early days of the conflict was notoriously corrupt and authoritarian. President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was part of the Catholic minority, populated his government and military with Catholics, fomenting widespread unrest among the country's Buddhist majority. In this image taken June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Quang Duc burns himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection to protest persecution of Buddhists. The picture came to represent the failure of the Diem regime and a growing public relations problem for the U.S. Several months later, Diem was overthrown, executed and buried in an unmarked grave.

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in March 1965. The troops were moving to attack a Viet Cong camp northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.

A Vietnamese man holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle near the Cambodian border on March 19, 1964.

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Unseen World War II Photos

World War II photos taken in the former USSR during World War II on the occupied territories. These are photos from family archives posted online by grandchildren of those who took part in the war: the authors of most of them remain unknown. Some of the photos belong to the Soviet journalists: Dmitri Baltermants and Vladimir Lupejko. The photographs are cruel and shocking, but they should teach us about life and how precious it is. We are all equals during our short life on this planet and all nations should embrace others and cease all conflicts. For the better future of our children, may the history never repeat itself.

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"V-J Day, Times Square, 1945", a.k.a. “The Kiss" by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945

V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers.

Elvis in the army

London Library After the Blitz

War is Over

post by Rado A man standing in front of the tank - CzechoSlovakia 1968

Roehampton Hospital, 1918

Fotografías de la Guerra en Afganistán

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Extraordinaria colección de fotografías que nos dejan ver con asombro y tristeza el verdadero panorama en el campo de batalla de Afganistán. Miles de soldados, ráfagas de fusiles de asalto, artillería pesada, tormentas de arena, elicópteros volando en el espacio, Muerte y Destrucción son parte de la vida diaria a la que se enfrentan los heroicos cuerpos de Seguridad Nacional e Internacional en el Medio Oriente. Gracias a DenverPost y a David Guttenfelder.

These photos remind us of the horrors of the war

No te conformes con una imagen, entra aquí y míralas todas!BROWSE GALLERY

One of the Most Heartbreaking & Harrowing War Shots You'll See [Be Warned Very Upsetting]

Victims of African Civil War. Woman & her Child. Forced to choose between remaining in homes-huts & being burned by rebels or fleeing & being shot by them as they leave. Part of graphic gallery by terrific photographer whose pics are disturbing & at same time, in some cases, vividly beautiful.

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