Military History: American Conflicts and Wars

Click on the side arrows to see selected photographs from the DOCSTeach collection on the Vietnam War.

(Image sources clockwise from upper left: Collection JFK-WHP: White House Photographs, NAID: 530610, NAID: 558518, NAID: 192603, and General Records of the Department of the Navy)

1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (from left) greet South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem at Washington National Airport

(Image source: NAID: 542189)

1961: President John F. Kennedy at Press Conference

(Image source: JFK-WHP: White House Photographs; John F. Kennedy Library)

1962: Vietnamese army personnel training in the jungle

(Image source: NAID: 530607)

1964: Photograph of U.S.S. Ticonderoga

(Image source: NAID: 594301)

1965: Napalm bombs explode on Viet Cong structures south of Saigon in the Republic of Vietnam

(Image source: NAID: 542328)

1965: Marines from Hotel Company Move Along a Flooded Rice Paddy

(Image source: Records of the U.S. Marine Corps)

1966: Air Force F-105 Thunderchief Pilots

(Image source: NAID: 541859)

1966: Honolulu Conference: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky (South Vietnam), President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu (South Vietnam)

(Image source: NAID: 192497)

1966: UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa," a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, Vietnam

(Image source: NAID: 530610)

1966: Bombs Fall on the Truong Quang Tin Railroad Bridge

(Image source: General Records of the Department of the Navy)

1967: A Gunner Aboard Navy Fast Coastal Patrol Craft Fires a .50-cal. Machine Gun

(Image source: General Records of the Department of the Navy)

1967: Public Reactions: The March on the Pentagon

(Image source: NAID: 1926)

1967: Members of U.S. Navy Seal Team One move down the Bassac River in a Seal team Assault Boat (STAB) during operations along the river south of Saigon

(Image source: NAID: 558512)

1967: President Johnson Shakes Troops' Hands in Vietnam

(Image source: Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection)

1968: Photograph of U.S. Marines walking along the coastal lowlands of Quang Tri Province

(Image source: NAID: 26386435)

1968: Black smoke covers areas of the capital city and fire trucks rush to the scenes of fires set during attacks by the Viet Cong during the festive Tet holiday period. Saigon

(Image source: NAID: 541874)

1969: Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through a swampy area

(Image source: NAID: 531457)

1969: A U.S. Air Force C-47 releases psychological warfare leaflets near Nha Trang, South Vietnam

(Image source: NAID: 542339)

1969: President Richard Nixon and South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu Making a Joint Statement at Midway Island

(Image source: NAID: 66394149)

1970: Photograph of Campus Scene during Shootings at Kent State University

(Image source: NAID: 2723186)

1973: A returnee waves from a hospital bus at Clark Air Base shortly after being released from a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam

(Image source: NAID: 6365634)

1973: Secretary of State William Rogers Signing the Vietnam Peace Agreements

(Image source: NAID: 27580141)

1975: South China Sea....Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA-114) take Vietnamese refugees aboard a small craft. The refugees will be transferred later by mechanized landing craft (LCM) to the freighter Transcolorado

(Image source: NAID: 558518)

1982: Visitors search for names on the face of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial after its official dedication

(Image source: NAID: 6378061)