The Dark Room - A Collection of Photos of the War

ARVN Rangers, circa 1964.

Photographer: Stan Slaton

Source: https://rattler-firebird.org/vietnam/pictures/StanSlaton.php

After the overthrow of the Diem government - 1963.

Photographer: Pete Komada

Source: http://oldspooksandspies.org/Photos/komada/komada.html

Saigon, 1965.

Photographer: Robert Gauthier

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/albums/72157629960978975/with/6991249262/

Sorry buddy.... meant to comment. Great pics. Those ARVN are really crammed into that UH-1B!

The guy with the green shades appears to be holding onto the backpack of the guy hanging out the door so he won't fall out.

OTB wrote:The guy with the green shades appears to be holding onto the backpack of the guy hanging out the door so he won't fall out.

Good thing they're little guys.

Great photos, yet again. Thanks for searching them out and posting them, OTB.

Tom

Thanks

Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam. This twelve year old ARVN Airborne trooper with M-79 grenade launcher accompanied the Airborne Task Force Unit on a sweep through the devastated area surrounding the French National Cemetery on Plantation Road after a day long battle there. The young soldier has been "adopted" by the Airborne Division.

Date: 05/07/1968

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Author: US Army Signal Corps

URL: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/530623

THat M-79 is almost as big as him!

"M16?" "Quá lớn!"(too big!)
"CAR-15?" "Quá lớn!"
"Car-bine M1?" "Quá lớn!"
"M79?" "Hoàn hảo!" (Perfect!)

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/12355320094/in/photostream/lightbox/

Wow OTB. This is a very quietly moving photo.

Agreed. Great find.

Thanks

Mortar pit, Detachment A-109, Thuong Duc District, Quang Nam Province, 1970.

Photo by Jim Duffy.

Source: https://www.specialforces78.com/members-pages/jim-duffy/nggallery/slideshow

AP Saigon Correspondent Malcolm Browne accompanies South Vietnamese Marines on a mission to relieve the besieged government garrison at Ap Tan Long in 1962. (AP Photo/Le Minh)

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13476480@N07/10263036094/

Malcolm Browne's most famous photo:

Getting scientific in Pleiku, circa 1967.

Photographer: Larry Hertzberg

Source: https://www.khoi.studio/2020/04/nhip-song-doi-thuong-o-pho-nui-pleiku-truoc-nam-1975.html

105mm fire mission at FSB Brenda. A Btry 5/27th Arty. Source unknown

I love the name on the barrel!  

Broader angle, good source for making FSB's

FSB Brenda, Duster from A Bty 4/60th Arty. Source unknown

Rare birds: Members of the ASA, the National Security Agency’s ground force in Vietnam, on a mountain pass near Hue, circa 1963.

Photographer: Taken by Ned Scheer (MOS 058)

Source: http://oldspooksandspies.org/Photos/Scheer/scheer.html

"Until 1965, even an ASA soldier’s MOS was classified [58 = “manual-Morse intercept operator.”], and he was listed under a fictional MOS of “General Duties.” ASA units carried the camouflaged and euphemistic title “radio research units,” and their mission was so highly classified that only the top-most echelons of the U.S. command in Vietnam had any inkling of what their mission was, assuming they had “the need to know.” https://www.facebook.com/UnlikelyWarriors/posts/early-warning-1965-a-young-army-security-agency-soldier-walked-out-of-the-back-g/663650517065974/

I thought that Life magazine cover was actually a painting. That's a piece of art!

Holiday Inn...



Photographer: Unknown

Source:  1st Infantry Division FB Group

Wow small entrance