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Philip Jones Griffiths - VIETNAM. Ho Chi Minh Trail.
VIETNAM. On a part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail that passes through the Ashau valley a driver who spent seven
VIETNAM. A Luoi Valley. A contaminated fishpond. Recent tests by the Canadian Hatfield Consultants have shown that these are the most contaminated ponds in Viet
VIET NAM. Displays showing some of the US pilots shot down and captured during the war.
VIETNAM. The outer casing - the "mother bomb" - of a Cluster Bomb Unit on the side on the side of the trail leading from Y Leng village.
VIETNAM. On the trail near the Mu Gia pass the remains of a bulldozer used to fill in bomb craters. It was destroyed in 1968 by fighter planes.
VIETNAM. Petrol storage tanks were installed underground at frequent intervals along the trail. Nowadays they are being dug up for use in more populated areas.
VIETNAM. Petrol storage tanks were installed underground at frequent intervals along the trail. Nowadays they are being dug up for use in more populated areas.
VIETNAM. The Mu Gia Pass between Viet Nam and Laos where the trail passed. The guards spend their time collecting scrap metal. The pass was a "choke-point" on t...
VIETNAM. Scrap-metal collectors working in the De-Militarized Zone.
VIETNAM. Villagers sitting in a river near khe Veh sawing off parts of a bridge into portable pieces that could be sold for scrap. When a bridge was destroyed b...
VIETNAM. A water-filled bomb crater with remains of the metal the US used for runways appropriated fro surfacing the trail when the tracks became slippery after
VIETNAM. Scrap-metal collectors working in the De-Militarized Zone. A collection point with a large collection of artillery shells.
VIETNAM. Funeral scene. The American Commander, General Westmoreland, declared: "Orientals do not share the same respect and love for life as Westerners do."
VIETNAM. Scrap at a collection point near Khe Sanh awaiting removal.
VIETNAM. The view through the gates of the Hao Lo prison "Ha Noi Hilton" - the only glimpse of Ha Noi afforded the prisoners.
VIETNAM.
VIETNAM. Khe Sanh. Old US-built runway.
VIETNAM. War remnants including a half-buried tank.
VIETNAM. Mr. Nguyen Van Tuc, came to pay tribute to the memory of his son, Hung, killed on the trail in 1972 at the age of 22.
VIETNAM. At the Hue Museum a driver on the Ho Chi Minh Trail shows his daughter musical instruments - a guitar fashioned from a tin can and a bamboo flute.
VIETNAM. Displays showing some of the US pilots shot down and captured during the war.
VIETNAM. At the Truong Son Division Headquarters near Ha Noi is a custom made vehicle for setting off magnetic bombs. This armour-plated vehicle sported a giant...
VIETNAM. Montagnard girl using an old US parachute flare tube as a water carrier. They were dropped over the trail at night to illuminate the trucks and are hig
VIETNAM. A group engaged in road widening.
VIETNAM. Training in using bicycles for moving heavy loads of rice and munitions silently along jungle paths.
VIETNAM. Soldiers wearing "Ho Chi Minh" sandals training in carrying heavy loads on their backs.
VIETNAM. Vietnamese soldiers on manouevers along the Lao border area. The military strongly believe in training recruits in the methods that proved so successfu
VIETNAM. A driver in a camouflaged truck with a soil-filled bamboo shield on the door as a defence against antipersonnel weapons.
VIETNAM. In A Loei the old petrol pipes are used to bring water to newly dug fishponds. Unfortunately they are the most heavily contaminated fishponds in Viet N
VIETNAM. General Vo Bam, the father of the trail, at his home in Ha Noi with a painting of the time in 1959 when Ho Chi Minh visited to ask him to set up the tr
VIETNAM. Phong Nha. The outer casings, the "mother bomb" part of a Cluster Bomb Unit, being used as a step
VIETNAM. Funeral scenes. The American Commander, General Westmoreland, declared: "Orientals do not share the same respect and love for life as Westerners do."
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