Source:  United States Army in Vietnam: Images of a Lengthy War, Joel D. 
Meyerson; Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1986

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Caption: Communicating in the rugged highlands challenged American 
ingenuity and technology.  The Hon Cong Mountain signal site at An Khe 
was the control center of 1st Cavalry communications. (U.S. Army)
Description: Bunkers and Quonset hut with antennas. Color.

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Caption: Airdropped along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, acoustic and seismic 
sensors listened in on enemy movement in the border areas.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Aircrewman standing in open door with sensor, ready to drop 
on command. Color

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Caption: A South Vietnamese convoy passes a small territorial outpost 
(right) on the road between Saigon and Tay Ninh in 1967. Fewer ambushes 
along the roads late in the year suggested that rural security was 
slowly improving.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Convoy of heavy transports moving through mostly cleared 
country.  (Aerial view.)  Color.

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Caption: Troops of the 5th Marines walk a rubble-strewn street in Hue 
after the 25-day-long battle for the imperial capital.  The tower of the 
nineteenth century citadel of emperor Gia Long rises in the background. 
(U.S. Marine Corps)
Description: Troops moving down street. Black and white.

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Caption: When North Vietnamese units massed near Dak To in November, 
Westmoreland rushed allied forces to the western highlands.  Air Force 
C-130's, including these on the Tuy Hoa flight line, moved the bulk of 
the troops into battle.  (U.S. Air Force)
Description: C-130's backlit by lightning on a wet runway.  Color.

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Caption: A paratrooper from the 173rd Airborne Brigade calls for a medic 
on Hill 882 near Dak To.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Troops in the bush.  Color.

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Caption: The 22-day-long battle for Dak To climaxed with a costly 
assault by the 173rd Airborne against well-entrenched North Vietnamese 
on Hill 875.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Troops moving through a blasted stand of trees. Color.

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Caption:  A mobile riverine task force of U.S. Navy boats and U.S. 9th 
Division soldiers moves down a canal in Dinh Thuong Province two months 
before the eruption of Tet.  Riverine units first arrived in the delta 
in 1967 for use against previously inaccessible enemy bases.  (U.S. 
Navy)
Description:  3 taxis and two montiors moving through the brown water.  
Color.

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Caption:  Navy monitors and assault boats pick up 9th Division troops to 
ferry them to a new location during the Tet fighting.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Riverine craft nuzzling up to the bank. Color.

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Caption:  Ambushed during the counteroffensive in Kien Hoa Province, a 
riverine force company commander calls in artillery and air strikes on 
Viet Cong automatic weapons positions.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Close shot of troops behind dubious "cover". The man on the
phone is 2nd Lt. Edward Ridgley, CO, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Division.
(Lt, could you order us a pizza while you're on the phone?)  Color.

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Caption: Fired from barges in direct support of riverine forces, 105-mm. 
howitzers (M102) helped cripple the enemy offensive by the second week 
of February.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Black and white.

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Caption: Armed with missiles and bombs, an Air Force F-4 Phantom takes 
off from a base in Thailand for a mission over the North.  On 1 November 
the president extended his partial bombing halt to all of North Vietnam.  
(U.S. Air Force)
Description: The cameraman had to duck after he took this shot from the 
end of the runway!  Black and white.

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Caption: A heavily laden South Vietnamese marine pauses during clearing 
operations in Cholon.  President Johnson's decision to establish a final 
U.S. troop ceiling meant that the fighting would be increasingly turned 
over to the South Vietnamese.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Description: This guy must have had trouble standing up!  
Color.

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Caption: Fire Support Base COLORADO, manned by artillery and infantry 
units of the 25th Division, helped block enemy movement toward Tay Ninh 
City and the populations southward.
Description: Aerial view of a firebase, showing layout clearly.  Black 
and white.

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Caption: West of Saigon, an M48 tank of the 11th Armored Cavalry 
Regiment pauses while an Air Force Phantom strikes a tree line.  Armored 
forces operating in small groups to take advantage of their mobility 
were successful in drying up enemy supply operations in the capital 
corridor. (U.S. Army)
Description: Black and white.

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Caption: A "tunnel rat" serving with the Americal Division emerges from 
an enemy underground complex south of Chu Lai.  By mid-1969, pressure 
against the enemy's logistics system in the South forced large enemy 
units to retire to their sanctuaries across the border.  (U.S. Army)
Description: Those guys were *crazy*.  Color.

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Caption: While this 9th Division soldier fought in Cambodia, students 
back home protested the expanded war. (U. S. Army)
Description: Just read the headlines.  Color.