Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area: the remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly beaten Viet Cong 308th main force Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Gac, operational staff officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force units are North Vietnamese regular soldiers

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Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area: the remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly beaten Viet Cong 308th main force Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Gac, operational staff officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force units are North Vietnamese regular soldiers
Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area: the remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly beaten Viet Cong 308th main force Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Gac, operational staff officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force units are North Vietnamese regular soldiers
Artist/Maker
DateJune 1968
MediumVintage newswire
DimensionsImage: 6 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (16.8 × 24.3 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.6 × 25.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.186
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Markings Verso, (typed blue ink): "VIETIMESE TROOPS EJECT COMMUNIST INFILTRATORS FROM SAIGON AREA / On June 8, the Government of Vietnam in Saigon, issued a communique announcing restoration / of security in the Cholon sector of the capital and calling upon the refugees from that area to / return to their homes. / Behind this announcement ia a story involving a tenacious North Vie tnamese (NVA) and Viet / Cong (VC) force and its infiltration of the Saigon area to create havoc and unrest among the / civilian population. It also is a story of a courageous and determined Governmant force spoiling / the Communists' plans. / Beginning about May 5, Communist battalions deployed in the provinces around Saigon, began / sending infiltrators into the city. Hundreds of them, armed with automatic weapons, mortars, / rockets, and ammunition, eluded the city's defenses and got into the Cholon, Gia Dinh, and Go Vap / sections of the capital. Residents of the three sections filed to safety as the infiltrators / moved in and occupied their homes. / It was from these houses that the Government troops had to rout the infiltrators, at the / same time keeping destruction to a minimum. The NVA and VC did not exercise similar restraint. / Their guns, mortors and rockets, fired indiscriminately, killed 433 civilians, wounded 3,600 and / destroyed 16,000 houses. Government forces killed 2,880 NVA and VC soldiers, captured 328 prison- / ers and many weapons. A total of 261 Government troops were killed and 1,032 wounded in the same / period of May 5 - June 6. These figures, announced by the government of Vietnam on June 10, indicate the success of its troops in blocking the Communist plans. / # # # # # / The remaining members, 30 men and one woman, of the badly-beaten Viet Cong 308th main force / Battalion are shown in Cholon after their surrender to Government forces. Seated (front row, / center) is Vo Thi My, a NVA woman liaison cadre. On her left is Nguyen Van Dac, operational staff / officer for the battalion. Approximately 70 percent of VC main force unite are North Vietnamese / regular soldiers. (68-0239) (VPS 68-019)"
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): “1200 / ANON-VNM-219”
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Unknown artist
Date: October 17, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.183
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
Date: August, 1965
Medium: United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.291
An American officer serving with the South Vietnam forces poses with group of Montagnards in front of one of their provisionary huts in a military camp in central Vietnam on November 17, 1962. They were among brought in by government troops from village where they were used as labor force by communist Viet-Cong forces. The Montagnards, dark-skinned tribesmen, numbering about 700,000 live in the highlands of central Vietnam. The Government is trying to win their alliance in its war with the Vietcong
An American officer serving with the South Vietnam forces poses with group of Montagnards in front of one of their provisionary huts in a military camp in central Vietnam on November 17, 1962. They were among brought in by government troops from village where they were used as labor force by communist Viet-Cong forces. The Montagnards, dark-skinned tribesmen, numbering about 700,000 live in the highlands of central Vietnam. The Government is trying to win their alliance in its war with the Vietcong
Horst Faas
Date: November 17, 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.202
A North View of Fort Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, When in Posession of His Majestys Forces in 1759.
A North View of Fort Royal in the Island of Guadaloupe, When in Posession of His Majestys Forces in 1759.
Lt. Archibald Campbell
Date: [1768]
Medium: Etching and engraving
Object number: 1971.41
Photograph by John Bentham.
Police Force
Cecil Beaton
Date: 1944; published 1945
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 1982.15
The Governor and Mrs. Ingleson drive General De Gaulle to the parade for inspection of the Free French Forces, El Fasher, Sudan
The Governor and Mrs. Ingleson drive General De Gaulle to the parade for inspection of the Free French Forces, El Fasher, Sudan
George Rodger
Date: c. 1941
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.210
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
Michel Philippot
Date: August 5,1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.122
F5's Tested Against Enemy in Vietnam: two US Air Force F5 Freedom Fighters which are among the dozen of the needle-nosed fighters being tested in Vietnam are shown circling the Black Virgin Mountain near Cambodian border in a strike against the enemy. A provisional squadron is carrying out an exhaustive 120-day test of these planes, weighing assets against some obvious drawbacks. Containers under bellies of planes are fuel tanks
F5's Tested Against Enemy in Vietnam: two US Air Force F5 Freedom Fighters which are among the dozen of the needle-nosed fighters being tested in Vietnam are shown circling the Black Virgin Mountain near Cambodian border in a strike against the enemy. A provisional squadron is carrying out an exhaustive 120-day test of these planes, weighing assets against some obvious drawbacks. Containers under bellies of planes are fuel tanks
Horst Faas
Date: December 1, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.132
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Home Defense Specialist is this member of South Vietnams Popular Forces, a group that fights only in defense of their hamlet or village. Earthen works is five feet high and five feet thick and ringed by seven mined moats and thick barbed wire, 1965
Unknown artist
Date: August 20, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.292
Police force badges (cloth), NYC
Police force badges (cloth), NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.161
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
The Taking of the French Island of Martinique in The West Indies On Feb.y 24 1809 With a View of the Bombardment of Fort Bourbon and the surrender of that Fortress and the whole Island to the British Forces under the command of Genl. Beckwith
The Taking of the French Island of Martinique in The West Indies On Feb.y 24 1809 With a View of the Bombardment of Fort Bourbon and the surrender of that Fortress and the whole Island to the British Forces under the command of Genl. Beckwith
G. Thompson
Date: published June 17, 1809
Medium: Engraving with hand coloring
Object number: 1971.62