Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation

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Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Artist/Maker
DateAugust 1, 1967
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (18.1 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 1/8 × 10 in. (20.6 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.188
Not on view

Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper right edge (typed, black ink): [sideways, crossed out with blue ink] "VIETNAM-WAR"
Verso, lower left edge (typed, black ink): [sideways] "VIETNAM WAR - VIETNAM WAR PRISONERS"
Verso, lower left corner (stamp, blue ink): [diagonal] "AUG 2 1967"
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): [sideways] "1200 / ANON-UNM-279"
(26) Pope Pius X bestowing his benediction as Supreme Pontiff, from his throne in the Vatican, Rome
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: 1903
Medium: Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.15
Photo by John Bentham.
Thomas Nast
Date: 1889
Medium: Ink
Object number: 1944.1.23a-b