The Dark Room - A Collection of Photos of the War

Welcome to the Dark Room thread. A place where folks can share images of Vietnam and the Vietnam War.

Please make sure when posting images, that proper credit is given to the owner of the photo of the website where it was sourced.

Abandoned ARVN M-48, Phan Đình Phùng Street, Phú Nhuận, Saigon 30 April 1975.
Photo by Jean-Claude Labbé/Gamma-Rapho. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/49835803647/

Location:



I have walked along this street various times as it is just across the river from my 'hood; Tân Định. I am pretty sure that the modern apartment building on the right in the background is still standing. If my memory serves me well, it is just north of the Cầu Kiệu bridge that leads over into Tân Định.

South Vietnam. Duc My, Phuoc Tuy Province. 20 July 1966. A Viet Cong guerilla who was taken unconscious from a bunker, overcome by teargas, during Operation Sydney and resuscitated by Corporal Norman Sims is checked out by Captain Tony White, the 5RAR Medical Officer. This action was controlled by Second Lieutenant Dennis Rainer MC, OIC 10 Platoon, D Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR) who is standing centre at rear. The VC guerilla recovered and was taken as a prisoner back to Task Force Headquarters for questioning. Photos by Sergeant Darrel Ford. [AWM FOR/66/0598/VN] [AWM FOR/66/0599/VN]

American F-102 interceptor fighters flying dawn patrol mission during Vietnam war. (Photo by Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The Life cover it was on:

https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/cover-of-life-magazine-dated-w-headline-vietnam-a-searching-news-photo/50704924

A Buzzfeed article with a portfolio of Larry Burrows photos:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/20-of-the-most-powerful-photos-from-the-vietnam-war

NZ troops doing their best to confuse the locals... Members of Victor 4 Company, 6RAR/NZ (ANZAC) Battalion, 1969.

Source: Victor 4 Company Website: http://www.v4coy.com/vung-tau---saigon---locals.html

Nice photos guys, thanks.

Tom

Air America Helicopter N1304X on the MACV pad in Hue, July or August 1968.
A Bell 204B - Photo by Curt Knapp

Source: www.air-america.org/
(link now broken)

M113 with flamethrower on a deforestation mission outside Ben Suc, 1966.

Photo by Dick Swanson. Source: Swanson Photographic Archive, UT Austin.

La naissance de l'Armée Nationale Vietnamienne / The birth of the Vietnamese National Army - Indochine Sud-Est Asiatique, April 1952.

Further magazine covers here:
http://museedelapresse.com/tag/indochine-sud-est-asiatique/

Here is one for Wayne.

South Vietnam. 16 April 1966. ANZAC co-operation as a pack howitzer of 161 Battery Royal New Zealand Artillery use a road secured by troops of 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) on Operation Denver, a search and destroy mission around Song Be Base Camp in Phuoc Long Province. Photo by William Cunneen. [AWM CUN/66/0324/VN]

The L5, a howitzer so compact it could be loaded into an M113:



Source: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/loading-an-apc-in-vietnam

April 1970, a Duster guarding a 173rd Airborne Brigade base at Phu Tai opens fire on a VC sniper hiding up on a hill.

Photo by James Speed Hensinger.

Source (slideshow of subsequent shots):
https://www.jhensinger.org/vietnam-pubs.html

Awesome pics!

That last one is fantastic.

Tom

In fact that makes me want to get out my duster and play with it. That poor sniper. What was he thinking?

Tom

Garryowen wrote:That poor sniper. What was he thinking?

Tom,

I think not a lot right about then!

Guys, these pics are AMAZING!

TailEndCharles wrote:

Garryowen wrote:That poor sniper. What was he thinking?

Tom,

I think not a lot right about then!

I'll say.

Tom

French plantation managers' cars at Quan Loi airstrip, January 1967.

Photo by Lt Jerry Parker.

Source: https://228th.com/sites/default/files/5.jpg

You sure find the photos, OBT.

Tom

Thanks Tom

US Marine, Hue, 1968.

Unknown photographer.

Source: Ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vietnam-War-US-Marine-PHOTO-Tet-Offensive-Hue-City-1968-USMC-/401743881031

Wow. Check out the pistol on his hip. Is that a revolver?

Sure looks like it, Rod. Very observant.

Tom

National Police Field Force members during the Tet Offensive, Saigon, 1968.

Photographer: Angelo Cozzi/Mondadori

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/48652355846