{"id":26991,"date":"2017-11-02T16:35:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/02\/remembering-vietnam-10-powerful-images-from-the-upcoming-national-archives-exhibit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:42:25","slug":"remembering-vietnam-10-powerful-images-from-the-upcoming-national-archives-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/military-honor\/2017\/11\/02\/remembering-vietnam-10-powerful-images-from-the-upcoming-national-archives-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Vietnam: 10 powerful images from the upcoming National Archives exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4526\" data-id=\"4526\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-BOAT-111317.gif.gif\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">During the chaotic final days before the fall of Saigon, President Ford ordered the evacuation of Vietnamese orphans \u2014 a controversial plan that would be known as Operation Babylift. The mission began April 3, 1975. The first flight\u2019s plane malfunctioned, leading to a crash landing that killed 78 children and 50 adults. More than 170 survived. \nIn all, more than 3,300 children were evacuated to the U.S. Here, crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship Durham take Vietnamese refugees from a small craft in the South China Sea. (National Archives\/Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4538\" data-id=\"4538\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-HUE-111317.gif.gif\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Navy Hospital Corpsman D.R. Howe treats the wounds of Pfc. D.A. Crum, with H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, during Operation Hue City on Feb. 6, 1968. U.S. and South Vietnam forces lost hundreds of troops and inflicted thousands of casualties on the North Vietnamese in a house-to-house battle lasting more than a month. One lessons-learned report on the fighting ended with this warning: \u201cBased upon our experiences during Operation Hue City, expect the unexpected, expect chaos, and plan for all possibilities.\u201d (National Archives\/Office of the Secretary of Defense)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"2122\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4545\" data-id=\"4545\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=212,300 212w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=768,1086 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=724,1024 724w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=1086,1536 1086w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LETTER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=1448,2048 1448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">The parents of Marine Cpl. Russell Keck sent long letters to President Lyndon Johnson expressing anger and grief at losing their son. His draft reply, with layers of revised and rejected phrases, shows his struggle to respond.  (National Archives\/LBJ Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"788\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4552\" data-id=\"4552\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-JFK-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-JFK-111317.jpg.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-JFK-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=300,236 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-JFK-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=768,605 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">President Kennedy addresses a news conference in March 1961, about two months after his inauguration. When Kennedy took office, the Communist-backed Pathet Lao insurgents were about to take over Laos. In 1962, the Geneva Conference agreed to a declaration on the neutrality of Laos under a coalition government, but the Indochinese Communist Party used land it seized in Laos to build part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The trail would become a major conduit for Communist supplies and support, ensuring that Laos would remain a battlefront throughout the war. (National Archives\/JFK Presidential Library and Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2912\" height=\"2080\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4557\" data-id=\"4557\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg 2912w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg?resize=300,214 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg?resize=768,549 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg?resize=1024,731 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg?resize=1536,1097 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-KENT-STATE-111317.JPG.jpg?resize=2048,1463 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2912px) 100vw, 2912px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Students run from gunfire that would kill four of their classmates at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. President Nixon\u2019s Commission on Campus Unrest concluded \u201cthe indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable.\u201d A federal grand jury indicted eight National Guardsmen but found they were not subject to criminal prosecution because they acted in self-defense. (National Archives\/Kent State investigation\/Justice Department)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4561\" data-id=\"4561\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-THUNDERCHIEF-111317.gif.gif\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam, began in 1965. Through 1968, U.S. bombers dropped 643,000 tons of bombs. The weapons killed approximately 52,000 Vietnamese civilians. Here, flying alongside a B-66 Destroyer, Air Force F-105 Thunderchief pilots bomb a military target through low clouds over the southern panhandle of North Vietnam. (National Archives\/U.S. Information Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1077\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4563\" data-id=\"4563\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=300,202 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=768,517 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,689 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-MARINES-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1034 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">Marines (and their gear) arrive near Da Nang Air Base on March 8, 1965, some of the 3,500 Marines who would join the military advisers already in country as the first ground combat troops. By the end of 1965, total U.S. military strength in South Vietnam had reached 185,000 personnel, according to an official Army history. (National Archives\/Office of the Secretary of Defense)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"409\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4567\" data-id=\"4567\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-HOMECOMING-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-HOMECOMING-111317.jpg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-HOMECOMING-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=300,205 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">American servicemen, all former prisoners of war, cheer as their plane takes off for home from an airfield near Hanoi on Feb. 12, 1973. In all, 591 POWs were released after the Paris Peace Agreement was signed. (National Archives\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1017\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4572\" data-id=\"4572\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-PAPER-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-PAPER-111317.jpg.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-PAPER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=295,300 295w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-PAPER-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=768,781 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">A 1965 policy paper titled \u201cAggression from the North\u201d described the justification for America\u2019s intervention in Vietnam. It portrayed the war as an invasion by the North Vietnamese with Moscow pulling the strings. Critics insisted it was a civil war instigated by independent actors in the south. (National Archives\/U.S. Information Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-4576\" data-id=\"4576\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LBJ-111317.jpg.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LBJ-111317.jpg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-ARCHIVES-LBJ-111317.jpg.jpg?resize=300,203 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_caption gallery-caption\">The Johnson administration began to question its strategy in Vietnam after a series of surprisingly fierce and well-coordinated attacks by Communist troops during the Tet Offensive, which launched in late January 1968. Here, Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara react during a Feb. 7, 1968, cabinet meeting. (National Archives\/LBJ Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Military Times asked the National Archives officials behind \u201cRemembering Vietnam,\u201d an exhibit opening Nov. 10 in Washington, D.C., to share a selection of images highlighting the many aspects of the Vietnam War \u2014 on the battlefield, on the home front, and in the halls of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibit, at the National Archives Museum\u2019s Lawrence F. O\u2019Brien Gallery, runs through Jan. 6, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more details, including a schedule for an attached traveling exhibit, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archivesfoundation.org\/vietnam\">www.archivesfoundation.org\/vietnam<\/a>. For more Veterans Month coverage from Military Times, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/vetsmonth\">www.militarytimes.com\/vetsmonth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibit launches Nov. 10 in Washington, 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