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Vietnam in Photos Mr. Chojnacki US History II

Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, in this June 11, 1963 file photo.

A South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam, in this Jan. 9, 1964 file photo.

A father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle near the Cambodian border in Vietnam, in this March 19, 1964 file photo.

Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, in this Sept. 25, 1965 file photo.

U.S. Army helicopters providing support for U.S. ground troops fly into a staging area fifty miles northeast of Saigon, Vietnam, in this 1966 file photo.

Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in Vietnam, in this March 1965 file photo.

First Cavalry Division medic Thomas Cole, from Richmond, Va., looks up with one uncovered eye as he treats a wounded Staff Sgt. Harrison Pell during a firefight in the Central Highlands in Vietnam, between U.S. troops and a combined North Vietnamese and Vietcong force, in this January 1966 file photo.

The body of an American paratrooper, killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border, is raised up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C, Vietnam, in this 1966 file photo.

Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire at Bao Trai, about 20 miles west of Saigon, Vietnam, in this Jan. 1, 1966 file photo.

American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north- Northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D, in this June 15, 1967 file photo.

South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, left, chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a Saigon street, early in the Tet Offensive, in this Feb. 1, 1968 file photo.

A South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband, found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, Vietnam, in this April 1969 file photo.

Nine-year-old Kim Phuc, center, runs down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack, in this June 8, 1972 file photo.

Released prisoner of war, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., as he returns home from the Vietnam War, in this March 17, 1973 file photo

A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, signifying the fall of South Vietnam, in this April 30, 1975 file photo. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north.

People try to scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, trying to reach evacuation helicopters, as the last of the Americans depart from Vietnam, in this April 29, 1975 file photo.

U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea off the coast of Vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights from Saigon, in this April 29, 1975 file photo.