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A trooper with an M-60 machine gun on his shoulder stands in front of a burning village. Soldiers from C Co., 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, set fire to the village on the Bong Son plain during Operation Pershing. The night before they had been in a firefight at the village. As the soldiers approached in the morning they tripped mines. Three soldiers were wounded and one was killed.
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A Vietnamese woman throws dirt on a house that had been set afire by troopers from C Co., 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. The soldiers set fire to the village on the Bong Son plain during Operation Pershing. The night before the soldiers had been in a firefight at the village. As the soldiers approached in the morning they tripped mines. Three soldiers were wounded and one was killed.
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A Vietnamese woman wails in protest at Marines who kicked over her rice storage baskets searching for weapons. The Marines were from Alpha Co., 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division. They were taking part in Operation Lafayette about six miles north of Hoi An in Quang Nam province in Feburary 1967.
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Burning Village
On Feb. 20, 1967, troopers from the 1st Cavalry
Division burned a village on the Bong Son Plain
in central Vietnam after one of the soldiers was
killed by a booby trap. For more images, click
here.
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Hill 881
On April 30, 1967, Marines finally took Hill 881
near the demilitarized zone in Vietnam. At the time,
it was the war’s bloodiest battle. For more
images, click
here.
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Ambush
On Feb. 14, 1967, a squad from the 1st Cavalry Division
was ambushed on the Bong Son Plain. For more images,
click
here.
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Robert Hodierne, certain that the war in Vietnam
would blow over before he could finish college,  dropped
out in 1966 and went to Saigon to work as a freelance photographer, a stringer
in the terms of the day. He stayed until the summer of 1967. After finishing
college, he returned again in early 1969 and left in the spring of 1970.
He covered the war from the DMZ in the north to
the Mekong Delta in the south, from the Central
Highlands to the coastal plains. He photographed
soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Vietnamese
civilians caught up in the war. After Vietnam, Hodierne
gave up photography for reporting and editing.
A full resume can be seen at www.hodierne.com. |
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