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  • Collection: Vietnam War

USS Maddox Fires on Vietnamese Patrol Boat.gif
The USS Maddox fires upon North Vietnamese patrol boat in the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Image of Alfred J. Mirabelli posed next to a truck on the U.S. military base of Phu Bai, just south of Hue, Vietnam

Gulf of Tonkin Response.jpe
A cable from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to The Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet authorizing an airstrike in retaliation for the second gulf of Tonkin incident.

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President Ford feeds an infant from Vietnam on a bus heading towards Presidio

Silhouettes, Memorial.jpg
The silhouettes of visitors reflect against the Vietnam Memorial, in its first days of the Memorial's opening in 1982.

Maya Lin with Model.jpg
Maya Lin stands with a model of her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on May 4, 1982.

NLF Vet.jpg
Vo Van Chap, a 56-year-old veteren of the National Liberation Front, holds a photograph of himself and comrades with a U.S. helicopter they shot down near Cu Chi on April 19, 1971.

Lin's Memorial Design Proposal, 1981.jpg
Maya Lin's drawing she entered for the national memorial design competition, 1981. A drawing on paper, mounted on board.

Jan Scruggs, Vietnam.jpg
A 19 year-old Jan Scruggs in Vietnam, 1969.
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